Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!bionet!apple!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw2!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: X mouse catcher (yes, it's a cat) Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 17:27:57 GMT References: <1991Feb16.140555.17129@ora.com> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 1, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: daffy In-reply-to: jerry@ora.ora.com's message of 16 Feb 91 23:05:55 JST > 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