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This is a nice post that discusses the use of the \tdclock package. Following the tex demo provided in its answer, I modified my MWE below to use a stopwatch with the macros \cronominutes of that package. The problem is that I use the Antibes theme and would like to ask for support to add that stopwatch in the left corner (contrary side of the page numbering) in each slide.

I appreciate your support to achieve this, thanks in advance,

MWE:

\documentclass[compress,final]{beamer}

\usetheme{Antibes}
    \setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]
    \setbeamercovered{transparent=25}
    \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\usecolortheme{dolphin}

\usepackage{ragged2e}       % for justifying
\usepackage{lipsum}         % for random texts
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{lmargin=.5cm, rmargin=.5cm}
\usepackage[font=Times,timeinterval=60,timeduration=30.0,timewarningfirst=15,timewarningsecond=25,timedeath=0]{tdclock}

\begin{document}

    \quad\cronominutes                                      % for crono stopwatch

\section{ITEM}
\subsection{item}
\begin{frame}
    \begin{itemize}
        \scriptsize\justifying
        \item \lipsum[2]
        \item \lipsum[1]
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\end{document}
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You can define a new template based on the frame number one for footline:

\documentclass[compress,final]{beamer}
\usepackage{ragged2e}       % for justifying
\usepackage{lipsum}         % for random texts
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{lmargin=.5cm, rmargin=.5cm}
\usepackage[font=Times,timeinterval=60,timeduration=30.0,timewarningfirst=15,timewarningsecond=25,timedeath=0]{tdclock}

\usetheme{Antibes}
\usecolortheme{dolphin}

\setbeamercovered{transparent=25}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\defbeamertemplate{footline}{crono frame number}
{
  \quad\cronominutes%
  \hfill%
  \usebeamercolor[fg]{page number in head/foot}%
  \usebeamerfont{page number in head/foot}%
  \insertframenumber\,/\,\inserttotalframenumber\kern1em\vskip2pt%
}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[crono frame number]

\begin{document}

  \initclock

  \section{ITEM}
  \subsection{item}
  \begin{frame}
    \begin{itemize}
      \scriptsize\justifying
      \item \lipsum[2]
      \item \lipsum[1]
    \end{itemize}
  \end{frame}

\end{document}

The following shows the placement of the clock in bottom left. (It does not show the clock itself because, as is common, my PDF viewer does not support it.)

clock bottom left

Note that I think you should reconsider your layout here. Using geometry and justification to make it look more like a printed page is going to make things more difficult than necessary for your audience (unless, of course, you print your presentations rather than displaying them on a screen).

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  • it works perfectly, thanks a lot for that. The only thing was to put the \initclock inside the frame environment, because there is one empty slide when \initclock is inmediately below the begin{document}. The thing with geometry and justifying is only for the MWE, but thanks also for the tip =) – Gery Nov 18 '14 at 07:39