

WORD CLOCK WIDGET HOW TO
How To Add ‘qlockTwo’ Conky to Your Linux Desktop In many ways all Conky configs are less about binary utilitarianism and more about form, feel and function. Most of the Conky widgets I have on screen are usually obscured by open windows.īut then that’s true of any desktop widget, be it a clock, RAM monitor or weather forecast. Hurray Now, move your cursor over the gadget itself and a little menu pops up adjacent: The X gets rid of the gadget, the wrench icon gets you to settings, and the tiny grid lets you drag and move the gadget around to a different spot on your screen. “What’s the point of a clock widget? The time is already on your screen in the panel, and most of the time you won’t see it.” It’s a fair point, and one that always crops up whenever we write about Conky configs that have a clock in them. It requires little (if any) tinkering or file editing. The good news is that qlocktwo is a total breeze to get running. His widget won’t change the world but it will, simply, show the current system time as text.Ĭonky themes can be super complex to set up and confusing to newer users. The clock is a Conky theme called ‘qlocktwo’ and made by designer ~ mowgli-writes. Word clock widget inspired by QlockTwo Features: 21 supported languages + 4 variations 18 themes + custom themes Support for dark/light mode themes. Two keywords, one click and a renamed file later, I now have an awesome word clock widget on my desktop, powered by open-source system-stats tool Conky. Anyone know where I can get that clock widget and that battery widget thing that are in words instead of numbers Like the one shown on the mau5 cm7 theme. I suck at DIY electronics (I regularly fail at putting AA batteries in the remote the right way around) but I really dig the design of this timepiece. Recently I read about a cool DIY wall clock that can display the time in words.
