I was looking up for a clock overlay, the closest thing I could find was someone mentioning you can use plasmawindowed to run Digital Clock applet on its own window in a Manjaro Forum post. So I just post my config so people can copy-paste / download it.
Installing
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Click Code > Download zip, then extract the files.
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Copy plasmawindowed-clockoverlay.desktop to:
/home/$USER/.config/autostart/(to run at Desktop Mode / KDE Plasma startup);/home/$USER/.local/share/applications/(for App Launcher/Start Menu); and/or/home/$USER/Desktop(for Desktop access).
Double click it to run immediately (or copy-paste the Exec command to terminal).
(If you want to change to 24-hours, do it now – click it and open its setting – as it has its own setting separate from any existing clock widgets)
- Open System Settings, and search for
ruleswhich should show Window Rules under Apps & Windows > Window Management. Click Import and open clockoverlay.kwinrule.
(Alternatively, you can manually copy paste it to /home/$USER/.config/kwinrulesrc or you can manually configure the window rules yourself using Detect Window Property in that setting menu.)
- Edit the settings as needed, such as whether it skips pager (Overview) and if it is Closeable. I don’t recommend disabling Accept Focus - I couldn’t find a way to reject click/touch inputs and dismissing the calendar menu can be annoying with it). The window position is set to Remember so you can use Meta + Click and Drag to move it to a more convenient position.
Manual Install
If you rather copy-paste the raw texts, here are the contents:
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- plasmawindowed-clockoverlay.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=plasmawindowed org.kde.plasma.digitalclock '>' /dev/null '2>&1'
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=plasmawindowed
Name=plasmawindowed
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
- clockoverlay.kwinrule to add to
.config/kwinrulesrc:
[Window settings for Digital Clock]
Description=Window settings for Digital Clock
above=true
aboverule=2
acceptfocusrule=1
closeablerule=2
desktops=\\0
desktopsrule=2
ignoregeometry=true
ignoregeometryrule=2
layer=overlay
layerrule=2
noborder=true
noborderrule=2
opacityactive=30
opacityactiverule=2
opacityinactive=30
opacityinactiverule=2
position=1421,82
positionrule=4
size=70,99
sizerule=2
skippager=true
skippagerrule=2
skipswitcher=true
skipswitcherrule=2
skiptaskbar=true
skiptaskbarrule=2
title=Digital Clock
wmclass=plasmawindowed org.kde.plasmawindowed
wmclasscomplete=true
wmclassmatch=1
Credits and Links
- Thanks to tuxmanjarino at Manjaro Forum for informing about
plasmawindowed. - Thanks to /u/Human-Equivalent-154 and /u/imhitchens (and whoever the original commenter was) for telling about Layer > Overlay window rule.
- KDE Plasma for being KDE Plasma.