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Jake Stanger edited this page Oct 22, 2025 · 16 revisions

Displays the current date and time. Clicking on the widget opens a popup with the time and a calendar.

Screenshot of clock widget with popup open

Configuration

Type: clock

Name Type Default Description
format string %d/%m/%Y %H:%M Date/time format string. Pango markup is supported.
format_popup string %H:%M:%S Date/time format string to display in the popup header. Pango markup is supported.
locale string $LC_TIME or $LANG or 'POSIX' Locale to use (eg en_GB). Defaults to the system language (reading from env var).
orientation 'horizontal' or 'vertical' (shorthand: 'h' or 'v') 'horizontal' Orientation of the time on the clock button.
justify 'left'', 'right', 'center', or 'fill' 'left' Justification (alignment) of the date/time shown on the bar.

Detail on available tokens can be found here: https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strftime/index.html

JSON
{
  "end": [
    {
      "type": "clock",
      "format": "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M"
    }
  ]
}
TOML
[[end]]
type = "clock"
format = "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M"
YAML
end:
  - type: "clock"
    format: "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M"
Corn
{
  end = [
    {
      type = "clock"
      format = "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M"
    }
  ]
}

Styling

Selector Description
.clock Clock widget button
.popup-clock Clock popup box
.popup-clock .calendar-clock Clock inside the popup
.popup-clock .calendar Calendar widget inside the popup. GTK provides some OOTB styling options for this.

Information on styling the calendar can be found here.

For more information on styling, please see the styling guide.

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