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How can I get a constant display of the time and date on the screen?

I have no task-bar. But I've got cairo-dock.

You can have a clock at the top of the terminal.

Basic example:

Code:

#! /usr/bin/env bash



tput clear



clock() {

    while sleep 1; do 

        tput sc

        tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)/3))

        tput rev

        date

        tput rc

    done

}



clock &

clock_pid=$!

echo "clock pid is "$clock_pid""

Or make yourself a little graphical digital clock.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python



from tkinter import * 

from time import strftime

  

root = Tk()

root.title('Clock')



def time():

    string = strftime('%H:%M:%S %p')

    lbl.config(text = string)

    lbl.after(1000, time)

  

lbl = Label(root, font = ('arial', 50, 'bold'),

            background = 'black',

            foreground = 'white')



lbl.pack(anchor = 'center')

time()

  

mainloop()

Edit: Correct fontname

You can also try conky.

GKrellM includes date and time.

Also. the venerable application xclock can be configured to show date and time. I use xclock