Looking for a screen-saver with a working clock

[Paul Smith]

On 1/1/07, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:
> >> Thanks, Bob. I would prefer an analog clock, but the one indicated by
> >> you is fine to me.
> >
> > I have just come across a screen-shot of the screen-saver that I wanted to mean:
> >
> > http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/pane.jpg
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/
>
> Yes, I agree this is a very nice looking clock. Since it's part of KDE,
> it's included in my Slackware system (you likely have it too). So I
> tried it by running kcontrol and running the test mode - works great. I
> guess it's not compatible with xscreensaver, the default screensaver of
> Xfce. Perhaps a KDE expert can explain if this is usable somehow under
> Xfce without running KDE.

Meanwhile, I sent an e-mail to Jamie Zawinski (the xscreensavers
maintainer) asking him whether he could include a port of kclock in
xcreensavers. Let us see what will happen!

Paul