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From:
Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject:
Re: [new] x11/xclockcat
To:
landry@openbsd.org, Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 3 Jun 2026 01:03:07 +0200

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On 6/2/26 4:26 PM, landry@openbsd.org wrote:
> Le Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Manuel Giraud a écrit :
>> 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,
>>
>> Ping and update on this essential program.
> 
> i'll be more than happy to import it with an ok from another fellow
> developer :)
> 
> Thanks for the reminder !

Tested with niri v26.04 under wayland, and don't know how I could live
without it. ok and thanks! volker@