As far as I know, Xeyes has “always” been part of GUI oriented Linux installs, and despite using it for mouse testing from time to time for over 25 years at this point, I never read the manpage. Well, my daughter, aged five, likes to play with xeyes and I decided to check the manpage if there was something I could do to change it up a little. Well, there is.

“WTF does this switch do?” *tests* “lol, of course that’s what it does…”

Note: The switch is case sensitive. I have version 1.3.0 here, not sure when this option was added.

EDIT: Lemmy won’t let me embed .mp4 inline, so I edited this post into a link. I also posted it here for those with cache issues.

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    not in 1.2.0

    Those little things, xeyes, xload, xclock, xbiff, I discovered them in 1990 in HP-UX and mwm, but we needed to edit some config file to remove the top banner, border, etc, it was fun

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      4·
      6 days ago

      1.2.0 here too… apparently.

      I’ve also known and used it occasionally since the 90’s but have never felt the need to find out its version number until today.

      It took me an embarrassingly long time to find that information for my installation. xeyes does not report its own version number like newer programs generally do, and it’s not in the manual page or as a hidden string in the executable either as best as I can tell.

      I eventually found it in /usr/share/docs/x11-apps/changelog.gz, which in retrospect seems obvious, but it wasn’t at the time.

        • palordrolap@fedia.io
          3·
          6 days ago

          Welp. If this keeps up I may have to talk to someone about selective blindness.

          It must have been there the last time I looked, but part of me is convinced it can’t have been.

          I even made sure to check the headers and footers.