melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) (02/21/91)
Archive-name: x11/games/xneko/1991-02-19 Archive: expo.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xneko.tar.Z [18.30.0.212] Original-posting-by: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Original-subject: Re: X mouse catcher (yes, it's a cat) Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) > At Uniforum in Dallas last month, the new Sony laptop had a cute > application running. In the window was a cat that would chase the > cursor (mouse). The program you want is 'xneko,' which should be available at a server near you. Otherwise, the files should be in an fj.sources archive (I believe ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp maintains such an archive). The issues you want are: 9005/17: xneko -- X11 neko 9010/23: xneko on root window The second article contains a patch which allows one to run the cat on the root window (using 'xneko -back' or 'xneko -front'). ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet