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ClockMagick

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Description:

Basic clock. I wasn't happy with the jaggies in other clocks, so I used ImageMagick's convert program to resize, rotate and add shadows to pretty it up...

Disable second hand / shadows if your CPU usage is high.

If you can't see the clock and karamba says it is running, try to find the invisible square in the top left and right click "reload".

If the clock still is invisible, you might try to reemerge qt and imagemagick with jpeg, png, tiff, gif flags, thanx dodo1122.

Last changelog:

13 years ago

Added menu enable/disable shadows
Added menu enable/disable second hand
Tweaked to reduce CPU usage
Added icon/made into .skz package
Created new NiX clock and hands
Added menu change clock and hands
Added menu enable/disable transparency
Added text input functions
Added menu set Alpha
Added menu set Size
Added KDialog dialogs
Save alpha & size
Tweaked save config options

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zenren
12 years ago

Simply and CLear: Elegant
SUPERB Work
Thank you

garystewart
12 years ago

Switched from Ubuntu Hardy to Kubuntu Hardy and finding a decent analog clock seemed impossible. Cairo-clock is excellent if you run compiz, which I don't. My machine runs better without it and without the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Glad I took the time to search this site. Your clock is simply the best of the best.

Thanks for your excellent (and it seems underappreciated) work!

hursit
13 years ago

Very good... Thank you...

ilj
13 years ago

Seriously, why not let people start up this karamba theme with LINUX clock skin?

It really pisses one off when you see plain clock the next time you start superkaramba.

Anyway, great job. Looking forward to improvements and specifically ability to start up the theme with a specified skin.

Good job. Oh, I did say it already. Well, anyway good job.

IL84
13 years ago

Great job, but it's a little bug. I've edited the clock_magic.py file:

enable_seconds = 1

The second hand appeared but the clock doesn't work (second hand doesn't move). If I enable second hand throught menu, it works correct. And after the exit from Superkaramba ClockMagik doesn't save the config file.

dhcolesj
13 years ago

Theme would be great if I could get it to save using the Thick hands, and the NIX clock permanently. Everytime the crazy thing reloads it loads the plain clock face. All the other settings will stick but the two I would really like.

Get those two working and I'll be running it.

ginux
13 years ago

This clock is terrific, but I want to change the hour.

I live in Spain but I want see the China hour, how can I do?, is possible?

Thank for your great work.

wsjunior
13 years ago

How can i make it always start with nix click style? I change it, but everytime i restart i have the other one instead.

imitation
13 years ago

Try reloading the clock after setting it up. Works for me.

-Imitation-

wsjunior
13 years ago

No it doesnt work and I personally hate this behaviour. It stores all the changed info but the theme. I would like to always start with NIX Clock sytle.

redstapler
13 years ago

The clock is invisible when I add it to the desktop. I'm using Kubuntu 7.04 with superkaramba and imagemagick installed from the repositories. I tried reload and update theme...both had no effect. I'd really like to use this theme. How do I make it visible?

redstapler
13 years ago

This clock theme is a piece of sh*t. It is invisible so its useless to me. Also, no one seems to know how to fix it, not even the owner.

davepb
13 years ago

I worked out a fix. At least, it fixes it on mine. Here we go...

1) Open up the superkaramba window and make sure any instances of 'clock magick' are uninstalled.
2) rename the downloaded file from 50846-clock_magick.skz to 50846-clock_magick.zip
3) Unzip the downloaded file to a folder.
4) Copy all of png files (images) to the "/home/YOURNAME/.superkaramba/clock_magick " folder.
5) restart clock magick. This can be done by starting the original (.skz) file or by going into the unzipped folder and starting 'clock_magick.theme'

Hope this works for you.

All the best

Dave

felipe1982
13 years ago

If your clock is invisible do this:

(1)cd ~/.superkaramba/clock_magick
If this directory does not exist, create it.

(2)unzip your .skz into here:
unzip clock_magic.skz

(3)import your theme into S.K. via GUI

graveyard
13 years ago

to unzip a .skz isn't necessary to rename it to .zip.. just make a "unzip FILE.skz" ;)

davepb
13 years ago

Hi

Thanks. I know that. It just works a bit easier in ARK and Konqueror that's all.
I tried to open the .skz file in ark (instructing it that it was a zip file) but it wouldn't open. However, it would if I changed the extension to .zip first. Strange;)

Thanks anyway :)

All the best

Dave

zx5000
13 years ago

The clock vanishes completely when I add it to the desktop. I used to have ChromeClock installed but it too vanishes.

Fedora 7
Qt: 3.3.8
KDE: 3.5.6-9.fc7 Fedora
SuperKaramba: 0.41

luchhh
13 years ago

Hi there, i really like your widget, looks very nice on the screenshots. The problem is when I try to make it works I get this:

Call to widgetUpdated failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ldillon/look&feel/karamba/clock_magick/clock_magick.py", line 105, in widgetUpdated
if ( arrow_hour != None ): karamba.deleteImage(widget,arrow_hour)
ValueError: widget does not have meter 8380270.

Python 2.5, suse 10.2

Please, let me know if I can be helpfull in any way

luchhh
13 years ago

Hi there, i really like your widget, looks very nice on the screenshots. The problem is when I try to make it works I get this:

Call to widgetUpdated failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ldillon/look&feel/karamba/clock_magick/clock_magick.py", line 105, in widgetUpdated
if ( arrow_hour != None ): karamba.deleteImage(widget,arrow_hour)
ValueError: widget does not have meter 8380270.

Python 2.5, suse 10.2

Please, let me know if I can be helpfull in any way

cyb3rj
13 years ago

I just DL'd another analog clock and my FIRST reaction was THE HANDS ARE JAGGED! I can understand your desire to improve upon that. Bravo.

therecorder
13 years ago

New to SuperKaramba. Where is the clock_magick.py file? Doesn't seem to be one on my machine. There are 50846-clock_magick.rc and clock_magic.cfg files in my .superkaramba directory, but entering "cur_arrow=1 #thick hands" in these files doesn't work (unless I'm entering them incorrectly).

A little help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Art

cyb3rj
13 years ago

It is a .skz file named clock_magick.skz.

Make a temp dir to hold the contents. "unzip" the file into that folder. Then you'll get your .py file.

I just did this because the theme does not retain my clock face, hands, and size options. So... I simply edited those options into the .py file. ;-)

scummos
13 years ago

looks very nice... just... in transparency-mode i think pointers should still have no transparency, otherways they´re hardly visible...
AND it eats 40 % of my cpu *lol

MenaEng
13 years ago

Its look nice

thanks

macbuzz21
13 years ago

Okay, I right clicked the transparent area and selected reload to no avail.

I don't seem to be able to get this widget to show itself.

Any thoughts.

Using Kubuntu Edgy

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13 years ago

Added menu enable/disable shadows
Added menu enable/disable second hand
Tweaked to reduce CPU usage
Added icon/made into .skz package
Created new NiX clock and hands
Added menu change clock and hands
Added menu enable/disable transparency
Added text input functions
Added menu set Alpha
Added menu set Size
Added KDialog dialogs
Save alpha & size
Tweaked save config options

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