Any progress on making version xdaliclock 2.44 available as a separate package?
I can confirm that the xdaliclock 2.46 in Bookworm/testing works nothing like
historical copies of the program. In my case, I have an ancient incantation
buried in my .xsession file
/usr/bin/xdaliclock -noseconds -nocycle -builtin1 -bg steelblue -fg black -geom
-0-0
and the new xdaliclock
Congrats, you are well on your way to understanding that Linux is a trash fire
all the way down!
On Sep 26, 2022, at 11:07 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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> Oh, it's worse: I installed `picom` which made the opacity slider work,
> but that affects the whole window, whereas I only want the
Less snarkily: none of these things can or will be fixed. Adapting xdaliclock
to more modern toolkits in order to have fully scalable antialiasing and a real
GUI for preferences has some other side effects.
If you want to party like it's 1991, run the code from 1991. It still exists.
Oh, it's worse: I installed `picom` which made the opacity slider work,
but that affects the whole window, whereas I only want the background to
be transparent.
Along the way I noticed another problem with the opacity compared to the
old code that relied on the "Shape" X11 extension: even if I
Package: xdaliclock
Version: 2.44+debian-2
Severity: normal
The version of xdaliclock in Debian testing seems to be quite different from
the version I've been running for the last ... 20 years(?). The most obvious
difference is that it disregards my Xresource settings.
But more importantly, I
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