Comments on: An analog clock for the console http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vtclock: One more console clock can’t hurt « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-43945 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:51:28 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-43945 [...] one doesn’t scale itself to a window size, like clockywock, and doesn’t occupy a small enough space to be “portable,” like tty-clock, and [...]

]]> By: binclock and a screensaver script « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-43712 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:08:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-43712 [...] a Comment I have two clocks for the console that I really like — tty-clock and clockywock. A third, binclock, is a curiosity and lacks a few of the “features” that the others [...]

]]> By: Using figlet for a console screensaver « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41407 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:29:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41407 [...] or if there’s another way to do this, please let me know. I was thinking about tty-clock and clockywock, and at the same time thinking about the 3D hostname screensaver that usually appears in the [...]

]]> By: ajlec2000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41351 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:47:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41351 Ooops! Didn’t look at the second screen shot.

]]> By: Papanoel http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41329 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:50:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41329 it’s you.. but not really..
If you look at the second screenshot, the parameters are:
- “minute hand character: h”
- “hour hand character: m”
Quite confusing hey?

]]> By: ajlec2000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41318 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:01:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41318 Is it me or is the hour hand longer then the minute hand?

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41307 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:34:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41307 Thanks, I was anticipating answering that, but I see you beat me to it.

For what it’s worth, I sometimes keep open a tab in vim, to serve as a “clipboard” of sorts. This is particularly useful if I’m making up a blog post with repeated links in it. Paste in, copy back out, profit. …

]]> By: Ali Gündüz http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41306 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:15:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41306 Peter,

Thanks. I was half expecting there was a simple gnu screen solution for it. :)

]]> By: Peter http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41303 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:44:05 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41303 GNU Screen provides copy/paste between the programs running in it.

Ctrl-A, [

to enter copy mode and use the SPACE bar to mark text to be copied, ESC get you out of copy mode

Ctrl-A, ]

to paste.

]]> By: Ali Gündüz http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41301 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:11:49 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/an-analog-clock-for-the-console/#comment-41301 It’s not really related to this post, but I would like to make a topic request for a blog post. :-)

The copy/paste issue is my current biggest blunder with an X-less system. Do you have a way of copying text inside and between applications (like web browser, email/irc/im/blog and the shell of your choice?

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