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2 asclock - afterstep clock
4 the best clock for the best X-windowmanager!
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9 by Beat Christen, bchriste@iiic.ethz.ch
16 the latest release should be available from
18 ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/clocks/asclock.tgz
19 ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/asclock.tgz
23 1. Check in the Imakefile if all LIBS are ok for your system.
25 3. `make` (Send me the output if this fails)
29 - If you are using 'Wharf', and only a part (48x48) of the clock is
31 you need AfterStep 0.98Beta Prerelease 4 and you have to set the
32 'MaxSwallow' keyword for 'asclock'.
35 TODO (for version 1.1)
36 - proper colorhandling for shaped clock. (too many colors used!)
37 - inclusion of asclock into Wharf
38 - language loading at run-time
41 Please send me language customized 'month.xpm' and 'weekday.xpm' files.
42 I prefer uuencoded mail.
48 Shape Extensions Dan Weeks
51 language specific Carlos Canau
57 and many more. look at the changes for the
60 26-Aug-96 - czech added
61 13-Aug-96 - french added
62 6-Aug-96 - spanish added (thanks to David Lazaro Saz khelekir@encomix.es)
64 (thanks to Gyula Matics mgyula@garfield.sch.bme.hu)
65 - breton added (thanks to Jean-Pierre.Messager@univ-brest.fr)
67 30-Jul-96 - ClassHints added (patch by Peter Parnes peppar@cdt.luth.se)
69 23-Jul-96 - swedish added (by Jorgen Pehrson d93jpe@blg.du.se)
71 4-Jul-96 - italian added (by Emanuele Caratti)
74 21-Jun-96 - '-iconic' state added
75 - usleep did not exist on Solaris 2.4: changed to poll()
76 - better error messages
78 8-Jun-96 - '-noblink' feature added
79 - final switch to imake
81 30-May-96 - am/pm should not show 0:00 am/pm but 12:00 am/pm
82 - portuguese weekday resized
83 - man page (by Dan Weeks)
85 25-May-96 - '-geometry' is now '-position' and it _works_ !!!
86 - in AM/PM mode, no leading one was visible...
87 - '-led' command line option added
89 24-May-96 - asclock can start an executable: as default you get a
91 - command line options added (-exe, -geometry, -shape, -12, -24)
92 - Shape-Extension (by Dan Weeks)
93 - now it's a Build script
94 - dutch added (by Andy Lo A Foe <arloafoe@cs.vu.nl>)
95 - norwegian added (by Frank Larsen <frankrl@stud.cs.uit.no>)
97 22-May-96 - obscure, not necessary XRaiseWindow removed :)
98 - error-message if Xpm-conversion failed
99 - name changed to 'afterstep clock'
101 - color selection in Configure
102 - color led added (by James Robinson <jimr@simons-rock.edu>)
103 - portuguese added (by Carlos Canau <canau@dawn.EUnet.pt>)
104 - Makefile improvements
105 - Configure is now for sh
107 20-May-96 - english support added (by Dan Weeks <dan@mango.sfasu.edu>)
108 - Language configure script
109 - german weekday widened to same size as english...
110 - Makefile changes for Solaris
112 18-May-96 - 8bit greyscale support added
113 - slightly moved the time-led's
114 - no bmclock directory was created while decompressing