cairo clock is unusable #3
Description
a few years a go, I wrote a theme for cairo-clock : there was an earth, a sun and a moon (and I believe another one), it was very pretty (a little difficult to read though) and I was very pleased by it.
One thing I noticed is that it didn't work properly when the "seconds" hand was displayed : the hand would just wiggle back and forth, never going though a full revolution. I looked at the code, but couldn't see any obvious errors, and gave up. At some point I reinstalled my computer, cairo-clock was left out, and that could have been the end of the story.
Until recently, when a bug in GNU screen made me want to have a clock on my desktop. So I fired up cairo-clock again, and selected a theme (radium-24) and noticed that - even with a standard theme - the hands were not where they we supposed to. I first attributed this to an error in the 24-hour mode, so set the theme to radium and unchecked the "Use 24h mode"
But it STILL won't show the time properly.
20221023_183215.mp4
as you can see from the attached video, the minutes hand is offset from where it should be, and jumps to the correct position when the theme is changed.
I believe that the minutes hand sometimes moves to its correct position, though I've had better things to do than sit in front of my screen and wait for that to happen.
However, the conclusion is that unless there is an option to "hide the minutes hand" (like there is an option to show seconds), cairo-clock, although very pretty, is totally useless.