#Rainmeter flipclock how to
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I don't know how exactly to do this in Rainmeter nor do I know if it will actually look better. Now all I have written here is pure theoretical speculation. When the other side gets visible, it has to be bright again. Of course only up to the middle of the animation.

#Rainmeter flipclock how to

I don't really know how to do this, but you could use a ColorMatrix to make the page a little darker as it flips. If the animation that results of this is too fast, just make it slower by adding more counter steps.Īnd a third suggestion: as the 'page' flips down, its angle to a potential light source would get flatter, resulting in a darker surface. Scale=cos((counter/max_counter)*(counter/max_counter)*PI) For us this means that we have to apply a square somewhere: This means, they start off slow and get faster the longer they are falling. Things that are falling down must do this according to gravity. In clocks like these you see on train stations or airports, the 'pages' are flipped by letting them fall down rather than using a motor to rotate them. As a next step, you could add some physics Now if you can somehow apply these functions to your skin, you will have clock pages (or whatever you call them) that look like they are rotating. Scale is the value you put into the transformation matrix. Max_counter is the value the counter will have when the animation is complete In that case applying a cosine function will work:Ĭounter is a counter that increments as the animation progresses. I will assume your scaling of the y direction starts at factor 1 and ends at factor -1. This will make the scaling be slower at the beginning and end and faster in the middle. I'll just show you the maths I imagine will work.īasically, you have to take a sine or cosine function to simulate the rotation. Okay, this is too complicated to explain. If you take a small sheet of paper and rotate it in front of your eyes like the clock numbers do, you will notice that at the beginning and the end of the rotation the movement of the. This looks a little unnatural, because what you are trying to simulate is really something that is 'rotated' around the middle axis of the numbers. Right now, you are creating the 'flip' effect by a linear scaling in y direction. There are a small number of suggestions I have, regarding the animation: I like the look of these kinds of clocks. Select this entry and your flip clock screensaver will be activated.This looks pretty cool. Now, open the Screensaver app again, and you'll see that there's an entry for Gluqlo there. Save the file after making this change and close it.

Once opened, head to the programs: section in the file and add the following line: Just close the Screensaver app and open the ~/.xscreensaver file using Gedit or any other text editor of your choice. If that's the case with you as well, don't worry. Ideally you should see an entry for Gluqlo in the scrollable list in the app's UI, but more likely than not, it won't be there. Now launch the Screensaver app from the Unity Dash:

#Rainmeter flipclock install

Sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra These can be done through the following commands: sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver

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Here are the commands that you need to run in order to download and install this tool: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:alexanderk23/ppaīefore you go ahead and launch this tool, you need to remove the gnome-screensaver package and install XScreensaver on your system. To set up the above shown wallpaper, you need to install a tool dubbed Gluqlo. Interested in installing and setting it up on your Ubuntu box? Here's how you can do it:īefore we proceed, please note that all the instructions and commands mentioned in this tutorial have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Looking for a cool screensaver for your Ubuntu system? One that also serves some purpose - not just those beautiful scenery types? How about one that shows current time? Specifically, I am talking about the flip clock screensaver shown below: