Modern Clock

A minimal desktop clock: a large day name over the date and time, on a transparent background with a drop shadow so it stays readable over any wallpaper.

This is a port of Prayag2's Modern Clock KDE Plasma plasmoid to DMS / Quickshell. That plasmoid is itself a port of the Rainmeter Mond skin. All the original defaults are preserved: day at 72px with 17px tracking in Anurati, date and time at 19px with 3px tracking in Poppins, 5px line spacing, white text, dd MMM yyyy, and a - separator around a 12-hour clock.

Requirements

• DankMaterialShell 1.5.0 or newer (developed against 1.5.3)
• Quickshell with the QtQuick.Effects module (ships with Qt 6)

Install

Clone or copy this directory to your DMS plugin folder:

git clone https://github.com/beefsizzle/ModernClockDMS.git ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/ModernClock

The repo is named ModernClockDMS, but the plugin directory must be ModernClock for DMS to pick it up — hence the explicit target path above.

Then add the widget from Settings → Widgets & Notifications → Desktop Widgets and enable it in the menu below.

After any edit to the QML, reload without restarting the shell:

dms ipc call plugins reload modernClock

Fonts

Both faces ship in the fonts/ folder and are used automatically — no setup needed for the original look:

• Poppins (fonts/Poppins.ttf) — Poppins Regular, SIL Open Font License 1.1, see fonts/OFL.txt.
• Anurati (fonts/Anurati.otf) — by Emmeran Richard, free for personal use only; commercial use requires the designer's permission. See NOTICE.md for the full provenance notes before redistributing or using this plugin commercially.

The Day Font and Date & Time Font settings are searchable dropdowns listing every font installed on the system, with Bundled default selecting the faces above. If either bundled file is removed, the widget falls back to the DMS UI font (with a shell-log warning) rather than breaking.

Anurati has no lowercase glyphs — 38 glyphs total, A–Z plus a little punctuation — which is why Uppercase Text defaults to on.

Settings

Setting	Default	Notes
Day Font	Bundled default	Searchable list of every installed font
Date & Time Font	Bundled default	Searchable list of every installed font
Show Day / Date / Time	on	Each line toggles independently
24-Hour Format	off	Off matches the original (hh:mm AP)
Show Seconds	off	Switches the clock to second precision
Uppercase Text	on	Anurati has no lowercase glyphs
Scale With Widget Size	off	See below
Use DMS Theme Colors	off	Uses Theme.surfaceText, ignoring the pickers
Day / Date / Time Color	#FFFFFF	Ignored when theme colors are on
Separator Character	-	Drawn on both sides of the time
Date Format	dd MMM yyyy	Qt date format string
Alignment	center	left / center / right
Day Font Size	72 px
Date & Time Font Size	19 px
Day / Date / Time Letter Spacing	17 / 3 / 3 px
Drop Shadow Strength	60 %	0 disables the shadow layer entirely
Background Opacity	0 %	0 is fully transparent, like the original

Scale with widget size

Desktop widgets are resizable, so the fixed 72/19/19 sizes only look right at one size. With Scale With Widget Size on, the three font sizes, the letter spacing and the line spacing are all derived from the widget's current width against a 640px reference, preserving the original 72 / 19 / 19 proportions. The font-size and letter-spacing sliders are ignored while it is on.

Credits

• Original plasmoid: Prayag2/kde_modernclock (GPL-3.0)
• Original design: the Mond Rainmeter skin
• Poppins by Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn (SIL OFL 1.1)
• Anurati by Emmeran Richard (free for personal use — see NOTICE.md)

License

The plugin code is GPL-3.0, matching the original plasmoid — see LICENSE.

The bundled fonts are not GPL and carry their own terms: Poppins is under the SIL OFL 1.1, which permits redistribution; Anurati is free for personal use only, which does not sit comfortably alongside GPL-3.0 in a single distributed package. It is bundled here for convenience and parity with the upstream plasmoid, which does the same. If that matters for your use — commercial deployment, packaging, or redistribution — delete fonts/Anurati.otf and pick a Day Font from the dropdown instead; the widget handles the missing file gracefully. See NOTICE.md for the full provenance.