is there such a thing as a terminal clock?

[chucky chuckaluck]

you know, a clock for the terminal/console, without having to install something else just so you can use the clock, and not something you have to fly to the moon just to get working. something that you just go 'clock' for and voila - "i'm already late!"

[Ozor Mox]

date

[chucky chuckaluck]

i mean something that keeps on ticking. date is a one shot deal.

[elmer_42]

date
date
date
date
Rinse, repeat. :) :P

[chucky chuckaluck]

i suppose i could just get a nice clock for my wall.

[klange]

while true; do date; done

or better yet:

while true; do date; echo -ne "\033[1F"; sleep 1; done

[Dr Small]

Like this?

#!/bin/bash
# clock - A bash clock that can run in your terminal window.

while true;do clear;date +"%r";sleep 1;done

[chucky chuckaluck]

Like this?

#!/bin/bash
# clock - A bash clock that can run in your terminal window.

while true;do clear;date +"%r";sleep 1;done



our winner! thanks.


edit: that sure is clean looking.

[Ozor Mox]

Wouldn't you have to keep a separate terminal window or tab open for that though? And then typing 'date' when you want to know the time is probably just as fast as switching windows/tabs :)

[DBO]

watch -n 1 echo ""

[chucky chuckaluck]

Wouldn't you have to keep a separate terminal window or tab open for that though? And then typing 'date' when you want to know the time is probably just as fast as switching windows/tabs :)

it's just one more xterm. i don't see it as much of a problem. i could always just use date if it became one.

[Ozor Mox]

it's just one more xterm. i don't see it as much of a problem. i could always just use date if it became one.

Ohh split screen terminals, didn't know that was possible!

[chucky chuckaluck]

Ohh split screen terminals, didn't know that was possible!

it's xmonad, a tiling wm. i think it's available in hardy (it wasn't in gutsy). there's also awesome, wmii, dwm and a bunch of others (ion3, ratpoison, etc).

[bettlebrox]

U can set your prompt to tell the time (it updates after each carriage return).

[ubuntu-freak]

This is the most interesting thread on page 1 of the cafe, seriously. I also like the thread concerning the MS keyboad and mouse seemingly made for Kubuntu as well, though.

Nathan

[original_jamingrit]

My user account:

PS1="\[\e[01;34m\][\t]\[\e[01;32m\]\W $\[\e[00m\] "
My root account:

PS1="\[\e[01;34m\][\t]\[\e[01;31m\]\W #\[\e[00m\] "

Copy and paste into your terminal, and if you like it, also you .bashrc. Updates whenever an operation is finished, so maybe not as useful as a regular clock.

[soapytheclown]

it's xmonad, a tiling wm. i think it's available in hardy (it wasn't in gutsy). there's also awesome, wmii, dwm and a bunch of others (ion3, ratpoison, etc).

could also use terminator which is just a normal terminal u can split horizontally or vertically as many times as you like :)

[init1]

watch -n 1 date

[mali2297]

If you use mpd, then ncmpc has a nice clock-screen (if compiled with this option).

http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/images/thumb-ncmpc-tux3.png (http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/images/ncmpc-tux3.png)

[rolnics]

very interesting thread, i'm amazed at what can so simply be done through terminal!

on another note, how would you set one of the suggestions to run every time you opened a terminal?

[chucky chuckaluck]

If you use mpd, then ncmpc has a nice clock-screen (if compiled with this option).

http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/images/thumb-ncmpc-tux3.png (http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/images/ncmpc-tux3.png)

i used to use ncmpc like a clock, but i've found just tossing a bunch of music in a file called 'playlist', then playing it with mplayer, to be much simpler. as i already need mplayer, it's one less app, so to use it just for a clock would be like getting a drink of water out of a fire hose.

[elmer_42]

Now I just have to get this working in conky.

[mkeuter]

I use dclock, although not in terminal, using xmonad it does the trick you're looking for. Other option could be xclock, cairo-clock did not work.

[nothingspecial]

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7058/necrov.png