Re: "where is the mouse" thingy

In article <slrnfonkj3.jjh.danceswithcrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hactar staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hactar staggered into the Black Sun and said:
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
Than, I appreciate that. It's such a useful thing, it's hard to
believe it hasn't been done already.

The xosd library does its thing by creating a screen-sized window and
making it always-on-top. Then it draws junk into that window when
necessary, then erases it. Doing this is requiring a bit more code than
I thought (even though I'm copying wholesale from libxosd) so all I have
now is incomplete.

What can I do to help? I know some C, less C++, and no X APIs. OTOH,
I might pick it up if I had to...

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.

xeyes always draws 2 eyes, though you can specify the size and colors
used.

I should reduce it to one eye. But I've got it reduced to use what 1
miniature monitor would use, off the L end (where the monitors abut) of
my pager.

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