Seven Segment Digital Clock

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Customizable seven segment digital clock with date and Unix time

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Seven Segment Digital Clock

This desklet displays a seven segment digital clock. It also displays the date and/or the Unix time. The appearance of the output can be configured in a variety of ways. It's equipped with several styles of digits, which can be adjusted in format, color, opacity and size.

Since I use Cinnamon I missed this type of desklet clock, so I finally made it myself. It's basically my first desklet and there was a lot of trial and error, but here we are. I hope you like it.

Requirements

Cinnamon 3.4 or higher

Features

  • Clock with 24h or 12h mode, the date and the Unix timestamp
  • 20 different styles of seven segment digits
  • Adjustable background, colors, opacities, sizes and formats
  • Digits can be scaled up to 350 pixel in height.

Known issues

After waking up from suspend mode the digits might get bonkers on certain machines. I don't know why. If this is the case double-click the desklet to recreate the graphics.

License

Seven Segment Clock is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Contained within this file are documents based on similar licenses:

Description: "DSEG": Original 7-segment fonts
Author: Keshikan
Source: https://www.keshikan.net/fonts-e.html
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1
License URI: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Description: Simple seven segment display
Author: OpenClipart
Author URI: https://freesvg.org/by/OpenClipart
Source: https://freesvg.org/seven-on-display
License: Public Domain
License URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

Description: A simple seven segment display
Author: alex8664
Source: https://openclipart.org/detail/168839/seven-segment-display-gray-8-by-alex8664
License: Public Domain
License URI: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Description: seven segment display - digit 8 (red) Created by 3247 using 7segment.pl
Author: Cfaerber
Author URI: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:3247
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seven_segment_display_8_digit_(red).svg
License: Public Domain
License URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Description: A 7 segment display
Author: h2g2bob
Author URI: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:H2g2bob
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:7_segment_display_labeled.svg
License: GNU Free Documentation License
License URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License

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11 Comments

taedryn
taedryn-6 days ago
This is a delightful desklet, thank you for making it! I have the same request as MarvinHiker: I'd really like to be able to display alternate time zones. I've locally modified my copy to display UTC, though that will be overwritten as soon as it updates, so it's not a great solution. Thanks for putting together such a cool clock!
RonaldKolin
RonaldKolin-3 weeks ago
Very pretty! thank you
Braexlo
Braexlo-1 year ago
Very good desklet! Спасибо
MarvinHiker
MarvinHiker-2 years ago
Awesome app! Can it display different time zones on the same desktop?
paulseldn
paulseldn-3 years ago
what have you done to it?. It was perfect. I used to be able to make the background completely transparent like a floating clock. Now. we are stuck with the enforced 5% opacity for the background and it looks ugly as hell
Gerardo Gómez-Caminero Ortega
Sorry! General setting
Gerardo Gómez-Caminero Ortega
You have a genarl setting to disable the background, isn't it?
stevenfriedrich
stevenfriedrich-4 years ago
Please add slash (/) as a date separator. TIA. Great desklet.
farzin-az
farzin-az-4 years ago
Intelligent design and elaborate options for customization. 5 stars!
serkan-maker
serkan-maker-4 years ago
Nice desklet! Thank you.
lxs242
lxs242-4 years ago
You're welcome, and thank you for the translation.