xosd

I was using tzosdclock for displaying the time in the corner of my screen. It uses xosd.

I used it in my .lircrc like this:

begin
   button = Back
   prog   = irexec
   repeat = 0
   config = /usr/sness/bin/tzosdclock -fn '-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' -tc black -oc white -ft "%I:%M %p" -ha right -os 10 
   config = killall -9 tzosdclock
end

This worked great, but I found that I was limited by the fact that I couldn't use large truetype fonts, so I switched to urxvtc running a little Ruby program:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

while(1)
  date = Time.now.strftime("%I:%M %p")
  printf "#{date}\r"
  $stdout.flush
  sleep 30
end

And started it on startup with

eesh -e "goto_desktop 3"
eesh -e "goto_area 1 0"
urxvtc -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-100" -geometry 8x1-0+0 -bl -b 3 +ptab -rv -e sh -c 'clockr.rb'

Which worked even better. Now I just switch to that desktop, which has aumix in text format, and the clock, and looks like this: