01-19-2021, 09:05 PM
I remember mouse trails, but like xeyes I thought it was just for amusement. I heard about X-Windows in general long before I got to try it, and I had a somewhat goofy girlfriend at the time who was into amusements. So xeyes, xsnow, Neko, mouse trails were around, and xscreensaver. Searching for mouse trails debian got me nowhere.
xeyes works, it just takes some interpreting. And if the mouse is on the far side of the screen the eyes don't move much. Having the cursor pop up when you hold down Ctrl is what I was hoping for. Apparently it only works under Gnome because even after a reboot it doesn't. I was starting to look into making an animated cursor. For MS Windows I made one that would cycle through colors in about a second so sometimes the outside was black, sometimes white. I could always spot it on any background color. There were I think 9 images and they gave the effect of moving forward while changing colors. Black and white maybe, it's around somewhere.
Nope, no Wayland.
xeyes works, it just takes some interpreting. And if the mouse is on the far side of the screen the eyes don't move much. Having the cursor pop up when you hold down Ctrl is what I was hoping for. Apparently it only works under Gnome because even after a reboot it doesn't. I was starting to look into making an animated cursor. For MS Windows I made one that would cycle through colors in about a second so sometimes the outside was black, sometimes white. I could always spot it on any background color. There were I think 9 images and they gave the effect of moving forward while changing colors. Black and white maybe, it's around somewhere.
Nope, no Wayland.