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I miss webpages with googly eyes that would follow your mouse on the screen. What a sense of whimsy.
by dymk 4y ago
I miss webpages with googly eyes that would follow your mouse on the screen. What a sense of whimsy.
- amenod 4y agoIf you are on Linux, just run xeyes. Classic. :)
- TakeBlaster16 4y agoxeyes was another wayland casualty sadly. I hope someone figures out a way to build wayland_eyes
- bitwize 4y agoFor security reasons that's outside the scope of the core protocol. But don't worry, all it would take is for someone to develop an eye-following protocol and for the compositors to implement it. It really is better, folks. Daniel Stone talk!
- forgotpwd16 4y agoAlready developed. https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2012/03/14/looking-around-wayland/ https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2012/03/14/looking-around-wayla...
- banana_giraffe 4y agoAnd don't forgot Xeyes And like Solitaire's "it's a tool to teach mouse use", I always thought the "it's a utility to track the mouse, not just a bit of whimsy" was a bit of retconing, but I have no real proof.
- rabuse 4y agoI believe Imguror had something like that for their 404 page with some animals following the cursor with their eyes. Always enjoyed that.
- drewzero1 4y agoDidn't GitHub do that too? I seem to remember a framed picture of a giraffe in a top hat (imgur) and an octopus cat in the Tattooine desert (GitHub).