xeyes

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xeyes is a graphical computer program showing two googly eyes which follow the cursor movements on the screen as if they were watching it. According to the X Window System manual page, it was initially written by Jeremy Huxtable for the NeWS system and presented at the SIGGRAPH conference in 1988. It was then ported to X11 by Keith Packard. Its popularity is due to the fact that it was run by default at the startup of the GUI in many installations.

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”.

[edit] External links

• xeyes manual page
• Jeremy Huxtable's 1988 version in NeWS Postscript
• Xeyes in Javascript
• real life xeyes
• XEyes for Windows, ReactOS and Wine
• iEyes for Mac OS X
• Eyes for Palm OS
• Gnome Eyes, a clone for the Gnome Panel
• LookAtMe! is a step forward making the eyes follow the user (camera vision), not the mouse pointer

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