Countdown

Countdown provides a window on your desktop, counting for a specific date.

By default, it counts to 2025.6.7, the University entrance exam in China.

UI Behaviors

Countdown hovers 15 pixels from the top right corner of your primary display.

It automatically adapts to your scaling (Thanks to the powerful qt).

The geometry (position and size) is currently NOT adjustable.

You cannot move, resize, minimize/maximize or close the window.

The program creates a tray icon, which contains a "config" to your config file (Windows only) and "Quit".

Configuration

Click on the '天' character on the bottom right to expand or fold settings panel.

Here you can set the date to count to and whether the window is Translucent (or, transparent) (Requires restart).

Other options can only be edited from consistent.ini. You can find it in the program directory after launching it for the very first time.

Style

The default stylesheet in config:

[widget]
Stylesheet=".QWidget{ background-color: white; border-radius: 10px; } .QLabel{ color:black }"

To get a better visual effect, it's suggested to edit it like this:

[widget]
Stylesheet=".QWidget{ background-color: rgba(255,255,255,180); border-radius: 10px; } .QLabel{ color:black }"

The format is acturally qss. Check Qt Online Help Document (EN), csdn(1) or csdn(2) for more details.

The base widget's name is centralwidget. Note that almost all components are children of QWidget, so you should use .QWidget instead of QWidget if you don't want to adapt it to everything. Check for names in ui file. For a more friendly interaction, try qtcreator or designer.

Known issues

• (Ubuntu) Cannot position itself topright (Wayland, gnome-tweaks:center new windows).
• (Ubuntu) Cannot hide its icon in the task bar.