---
name: "bclock"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bclock"
version: "1.0-12"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bclock"
---

# bclock(1)

round X clock with bezier curve hands

## NAME

bclock - round X clock with bezier curve hands

## SYNOPSIS

**bclock** \[-option ... \]

## DESCRIPTION

*Bclock* simply displays the current time on an analog display.

## OPTIONS

- **-fg *color***

  choose a different color for the hands of the clock

- **-bg *color***

  choose a different color for the background.

- **-curve *color***

  choose a different color for the hands on the clock.

- **-backing *{ WhenMapped Always NotUseful }***

  selects an appropriate level of backing store.

- **-geometry *geometry***

  define the initial window geometry; see *X(1)*.

- **-display *display***

  specify the display to use; see *X(1)*.

- **-bd *color***

  choose a different color for the window border.

- **-bw *width***

  choose a different width for the window border.  As the Clock widget changes its border around quite a bit, this is most usefully set to zero.

- **-shape**

  causes the clock to use the Shape extension to create an oval window. This is the default unless the shapeWindow resource is set to false.

- **-noshape**

  causes the clock to not reshape itself and ancestors to exactly fit the outline of the clock.

- **-transparent**

  causes the clock to consist only of the hands, and the border.

## COLORS

If you would like your clock to be viewable in color, include the following  in the #ifdef COLOR section you read with xrdb:

\*customization:                 -color

This will cause bclock to pick up the colors in the app-defaults color customization file: \<XRoot\>/lib/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color. Below are the default colors:

Clock\*Background: grey\
 Clock\*BorderColor: light blue\
 Clock\*curve: yellow

## SEE ALSO

X(1), X Toolkit documentation

## AUTHOR

Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium