A nixietube desktop clock. Runs on Mac, Linux, Windows.
The nixieclock program is a simple little desktop clock that shows the
current time using a 'nixie tube' style display, and can display the
time in various time formats as set by the -s flag.
It can be run from the command line with ./nixieclock (or on windows, nixieclock.exe), and moved around on the screen by click and dragging it to a new position. When closed and re-opened, it remembers the last position and time format you configured last.
You can choose different time formats by right clicking, and choose from different presets:
..or use the command line -s flag to create custom time formats using strftime(3) format strings, e.g.
| Command | Result |
|---|---|
nixieclock -s "%H:%M %m/%d/%y" |
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nixieclock -s "%H:%M %a %m/%d/%y" |
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nixieclock -s "%a %b %m %H:%M:%S %Y" |
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For more info, see the strftime(3) and nixieclock(1) man pages, or the docs/nixieclock.html html documentation, or invoke nixieclock with the -help flag.
Also, there is also a text file viewer using nixie digits; try running:
./nixie-text-viewer The Up/Down arrow keys move through the source code
a line at a time, PgUp/PgDn to move a page at a time, Home/End to move
quickly to top/bottom of file.
The 'NixieDisplay' class that can be used in your own applications to
do general display of multiline ASCII text.
For instance, the 'nixie-text-viewer' demo shows the program's own source
code in a text viewer using the same nixie font used by the clock..
This code is licensed as GPL3; see LICENSE file for details.
To report bugs, create an 'issue' on the project's github page:
https://github.com/erco77/nixieclock
See ./docs/nixieclock.html
github: https://github.com/erco77/nixieclock
webpage: http://seriss.com/people/erco/unixtools/nixieclock
- Greg Ercolano - nixieclock application (first written for the SGI + Linux, later OSX and Windows)
- Vance Kochenderfer - man page
- Lemon - freebsd and countdown patch
- Terry mrtembryyahoocom - mods for mingw linux cross compile, fixes