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.

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    7 days ago

    Reminds me a little of my favorite ack (a grep replacement) switches. There’s a Bill the Cat one (—thpppt) one that shows Cathy (—cathy), and Admiral Ackbar (—bar)