tbclock is a dirty little app that displays a full screen binary clock in your terminal (using curses). It is quite simple and features modules like "guessbin" a little time guessing game and "chrono" an accurate timer with tenth of seconds.

screenshots

• $ tbclock
• $ tbclock -m chrono (timer on pause)
• $ tbclock -a -m chrono (timer with vertical reading)
• $ tbclock -m guessbin (difficulty selection)
• $ tbclock -m guessbin (in game, with timer)
• $ urxvt -tr -g 6x3 -e tbclock -d (in a transparent term, on a desk)

download

• Source code: tbclock-1.10.tar.gz (12K, MD5: 0a0b499120603776a05daf283d18cb38)
• FreeBSD package: on freshport.org.
• GNU Darwin port: on gnu-darwin.org.
• IPCop2 package: on ipadd.de.

installation

In any situation, you will need ncurses and its headers (libncurses5-dev for Debian). Then, the procedure is quite simple :

./configure
make
make install

FreeBSD users can simply type "pkg_add tbclock" thanks to the work of Andrew Pantyukhin (sat at FreeBSD). Thanks Andrew!

thanks

• Franck (Flux/Spir) @ irc.oftc.net ··· original idea (should I thank your grand-mother?).
• Andrew Pantyukhin (sat at FreeBSD) ··· FreeBSD port.
• Olivier Regnier ··· Bug reports and ideas.
• You ··· for the questions, patches (send it to tamentis at neopulsar dot org)