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From:
Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Subject:
Re: [new] x11/xclockcat
To:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:35:45 +0100

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Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org> writes:

> Le Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 10:05:44AM +0100, Landry Breuil a écrit :
>> hi,
>> 
>> xclockcat is a fork of the venerable X10 xclock, but displaying a nice
>> animated cat, cf
>> https://img.linuxfr.org/img/68747470733a2f2f6769746875622e636f6d2f4261726b79546865446f672f636174636c6f636b2f7261772f6d61737465722f636174636c6f636b2e676966/catclock.gif
>> 
>> colors are configurable via cmdline flags, see
>> http://codefromabove.com/2014/05/catclock/ for history.  it's also in
>> freebsd ports in x11-clocks/catclock
>> 
>> it installs itself as xclock so will shadow the xenocara one, and i
>> dunno yet if the manpage should be installed and with which name.
>
> i was wrong about that since X11R6 is before local in $PATH so let's
> install it as xclockcat, and the manpage as xclockcat.1. I had also
> forgot pkg/DESCR so here's a new tarball...

Hi,

It works cute.  But why not keep "catclock" as the project name and the
freebsd ports?
-- 
Manuel Giraud