- Xeyes
xeyes is a graphical
computer program showing twogoogly eyes which follow thecursor movements on the screen as if they were watching it. According to theX Window System manual page, it was initially written by Jeremy Huxtable for theNeWS system and presented at theSIGGRAPH conference in 1988Fact|date=August 2008. It was then ported toX11 byKeith Packard Fact|date=August 2008. Its popularity is due to the fact that it was run by default at the startup of theGUI in many installationsFact|date=August 2008.Many similar programs have been developed for X and other systems, such as Windows and Java.
The manual pages of xeyes typically claim that the program reports the user's activities to an unspecified “Boss”.
External links
* [http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/xeyes.1.html xeyes manual page]
* [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.windows.news/msg/2adcf09ada55201d?dmode=source Jeremy Huxtable's 1988 version in NeWS Postscript]
* [http://wsabstract.com/script/script2/xeye.shtml Xeyes in Javascript]
* [http://www.steelblue.com/WinEyes/ XEyes for Windows, ReactOS and Wine]
* [http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21348 iEyes for Mac OS X]
* [http://fapalm.home.comcast.net/eyes/index.html Eyes] forPalm OS
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19990508060114/http://www.davec.dhs.org/geyes.shtml Gnome Eyes, a clone for the Gnome Panel]
* [http://uri.cat/software/LookAtMe/ LookAtMe!] is a step forward making the eyes follow the user (camera vision), not the mouse pointer
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