Re: "where is the mouse" thingy

In article <slrnfof6u1.e8f.danceswithcrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Than, I appreciate that. It's such a useful thing, it's hard to believe
it hasn't been done already.

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.

Can't find a way (either native or via plugin) to do that. I have an
FvwmPager running across the bottom of my R monitor; I'm playing with
the idea (if gkrellm doesn't pan out) of embedding that in a dock of
sorts then having another cell in the dock run {tu,}xeyes. If I can get
*eyes to have one eye instead of two, that'd be even better. The
parallax, being too small, does nothing for me.

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