DogeClock

A floating desktop clock widget built with Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Desktop. A rewrite of a perfectly functional PowerShell script — because it had to be done.

Check out the companion blog post for this repo here

Features

• Transparent, undecorated, always-on-top window
• Draggable — position is saved and restored between sessions
• System tray icon with show/hide and exit

Install

Download the latest release from the Releases page.

• Windows — run DogeClock-Setup.exe
• Linux — install the .deb package

Build and Run

# macOS / Linux
./gradlew :composeApp:run

# Windows
.\gradlew.bat :composeApp:run

Requires JDK 17+.

Releases

Releases are published via GitHub Actions. The workflow builds in parallel:

• Windows — Inno Setup installer (DogeClock-Setup.exe)
• Linux — .deb package

Triggered manually. Tagged as v1.0.<commit_count>.

To publish a release, go to Actions → Publish Release → Run workflow.