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Posted on Apr 24

catime

#catime

🎨 Powerful Tray Animations

Your tray icon can now come alive! Catime brings powerful custom animation features:

Custom Animations: Use GIF, WebP, and static images like PNG & JPG as your tray icon.
System Status: Supports real-time display of CPU %, Memory %, Battery %, and Caps Lock status.

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Looking for more fun animations? Check out our companion project, MemeTray!

💫Plugins

Plugins write to output.txt, Catime displays it — that simple.

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Looking for more useful Plugins? Check out our companion project, Catime-Plugins!

❤️‍🔥Staying tuned with us

Star us and witness how this pure C-crafted minimalist time tool continues to evolve - don't miss any exciting updates!

📥 Download

GitHub Releases

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.

Winget
```
winget install --id VladElaina.Catime
```

📑User Guide

Left-click tray icon: Set time
Right-click tray icon: Set menu
Edit mode: Drag to adjust position, scroll wheel to resize, 🖱️ right-click to exit edit mode

Configuration file saved at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Catime\config.ini

⚡Font Optimization

Reduce custom font file size by 90%+ with the official Font Simplification Tool.

Since Catime only displays numbers and symbols (0-9, :, .), most font characters are unnecessary.

Recommendation: Keep your original font files as backups. Future software updates may require additional characters beyond the current set.

🛠️ Development

Prerequisites: MinGW and CMake are required to build Catime.

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/vladelaina/Catime.git
cd Catime

# INSTALL DEPENDENCIES
# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y mingw-w64 cmake

# Arch Linux  
sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm mingw-w64 cmake

# Windows - See setup instructions below

📋 Windows Setup Instructions

📦 Required Tools

Tool	Description	Recommended Version Format	Download Link
MinGW	GCC Compiler	`x86_64--release-win32-seh-ucrt-rtv-rev.7z`	MinGW Build
CMake	Build Tool	`cmake--windows-x86_64.msi`	CMake

🔧 Installation Steps

1. Install MinGW

Download x86_64--release-win32-seh-ucrt-rtv-rev.7z from MinGW Build
Extract to C:\mingw64
Add C:\mingw64\bin to your PATH environment variable:
- Open: Control Panel → System → Advanced System Settings → Environment Variables
- Find Path in System variables, click "Edit"
- Add: C:\mingw64\bin

2. Install CMake

Download and run cmake--windows-x86_64.msi from CMake
During installation, select "Add CMake to the system PATH"

3. Verify Installation

gcc --version
cmake --version

Building

chmod +x build.sh && ./build.sh   # Linux
build.bat                         # Windows

🎁 Support

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Project Status

🌟Star History

✨Acknowledgements

With special appreciation to 猫屋敷梨梨Official for the beautiful icon design.

Special thanks to the following contributors(chronological order):

_MAX°孟兆

_XuJilong

_{点滴进度作者}

_zggsong

_{猫屋敷梨梨Official}

_MOJIもら

_李康

_{我是无名吖}

_金麟

_双脚猫

_rsyqvthv

_君影

_学习马楼

_{睡着的火山}

_{星空下数羊}

_青阳忘川

_William

_王野

_{煮酒论科技}

_风增

_田春

_behappy425

_x.j

_kissholic

_Alnilam

_柒

_枫谷剑仙

_Marial

_卓越方达

_choyy

_益渊Yyuan

_上条教主

_jin-gubang

_xlr134

_莫颜

_LuSrackhall

_{是玄夜不是玄月}

_YangCangShu

_valuex

_lxzrjyff

_DaYe

_zct4257

_小败叶

_{闲人不梦君Q}

_李良

_imxhe

_mua

_析木

_{溜溜大神校长来了}

_Seredo

_红树林

_Snow-kal

_TCWei

_YuYinLC

_Fireman

🗝️Copyright Notice

This project is released under the Apache License 2.0 open source license.

Icon copyright notice:

The software icon was created by 猫屋敷梨梨Official who reserves all rights. Without explicit authorization from the original creator, it may not be used for any commercial purposes.

Font licenses:

MIT:
- ProFontWindows Essence.ttf
SIL Open Font License:
- DaddyTimeMono Essence.otf, DepartureMono Essence.otf, Rec Mono Casual Essence.ttf, Terminess Nerd Font Essence.ttf
OFL (Open Font License):
- Jacquard 12 Essence.ttf, Jacquarda Bastarda 9 Essence.ttf, Pixelify Sans Essence.ttf, Rubik Burned Essence.ttf, Rubik Glitch Essence.ttf, Rubik Marker Hatch Essence.ttf, Rubik Puddles Essence.ttf, Wallpoet Essence.ttf

Wallpaper:

Author: 猫屋敷梨梨Official
- Dynamic wallpaper link: 猫屋敷梨梨「星之所在」曲绘夜晚版 & 猫屋敷梨梨-「星之所在」曲绘黄昏版

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