gchrom Home Page

To download the gchrom source code, go to the Sourceforge project page.

The gchrom project started as Tom Lee's attempt to make a Chromachron clock for the GNOME panel. Back when he was using FVWM2 he enjoyed the 'xchrom' program by Olaf Heimburger, which is an X11 Toolkit widget that did a fair job of mimicking Chromachron watches and clocks, which were invented by artist/architect Tian Harlan in the early 1970s.

Currently gchrom is available both as a GNOME panel applet ('gchrom_applet') and a standalone application ('gchrom'). It requires GNOME and GTK+ 2.0 to compile. Given a system with GTK+, it is quite likely that the standalone binary, once compiled, will run on computers that have the same architecture and operating system but do not actually have GNOME.

Conceptually Related Projects

Chromachron clocks for Java, Quarterdeck DESQView, Tcl/tk, and X11 -- by Olaf Heimburger
Chromachron for Mac -- freeware written in REALbasic by Prismo
Chromachron hardware -- watches from TimeDesign
Tian Harlan's ARCHEN project