Re: "where is the mouse" thingy

Hactar staggered into the Black Sun and said:
In article <p1hj55-d95.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Hobley <markhobley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hactar <ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey folks. I had this problem before, but now that I have two
monitors it's only gotten worse. Occasionally, I lose the mouse
pointer and I have to track it down by waving the pointer and seeing
what windows highlight.
There is a utility called xeyes, which displays a pair of eyes on the
screen which look towards the mouse pointer, helping to track its
location. You may already have this installed on your system.

xeyes is available, just not quite what Hactar wants. I *thought* there
was a way to do this, possibly a utility whose name I'm forgetting. I
don't think it'd be insanely difficult to gen up an Xlib app that does
"find current hotspot position, draw 50-pixel-radius yellow circle on
that position, wait 1 second, erase circle, exit". I can't do that
right now... maybe this weekend? The low-tech solution is always "move
mouse such that cursor goes into one corner of screen", which I have
done and still do occasionally.

Yes, someone mentioned that; it sounds like it might do the trick.
Know any way to embed it into gkrellm?

It's not an applet of any type, but a rather basic demo for Xlib (how to
use the SHAPE extension, how to find the hotspot, etc.) If gkrellm
allows you to embed arbitrary X clients, it'll work.

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