Hi,
Note that the bug report I am replying to actually describes two
separate (but related) faults in xclock's digital mode:
1) a large blank space is put at the left of the time, and
2) the displayed time is not updated, unless the xclock window is
obscured and redisplayed.
The former appears to be a duplicate of bug #564064.
I ran into these bugs (on squeeze, x11-apps version 7.5+5) yesterday,
and it caused me to hold a lecture that was 15 minutes longer than it
was supposed to be, since I tried to have a small instance of xclock
beside my slides to keep time for me...
The bugs appear to be highly locale-specific; for me the bugs appear
with all other LANG* and LC_* variables unset but with LC_CTYPE (only)
set to en_US.UTF-8. Like this:
unset LANG
unset LANGUAGE
unset LC_ALL
(and unset everything LC_* you may have set)
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xclock -d update 1 &
This displays a window with the clock shifted to the right and not
updating properly. However, setting LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 or to C fixes
both bugs, as does appending -norender to the xclock command line.
Update: I now also tried x11-apps version 7.7~2 on a squeeze system, and
could not reproduce either bug with any locale settings I tried. So
perhaps this bug and #564064 can be marked as fixed in that version?
(Can someone else try the above commands on a testing or unstable system
and verify that the time is centered properly and updates every second?)
I'm not sure which upstream commit would have fixed this bug, though.
Possibly this one in combination with some of the others:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xclock/commit/?id=251461d84de4220f05ffa35a3138aad1cd2e0302
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