Two desktop clocks a lá Conky with Emacs

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  • It was just a demo to show off that Emacs can be used for that purpose. For those two particular widgets, you will need Emacs with transparency patch applied, or you could create similar "widgets" that use opaque background for use with Emacs without that patch.

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    Drawing dekstop widgets with Emacs a lá Conky

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    Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

  • No it is a "desktop widget", or I don't now how to call it. If you are familiar with Conky, that it creates same effect. It will just create one window on your desktop and display clock in it. You can run it in your ordinary Emacs process or run as standalone process, maybe with -Q option:

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