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^{[citation needed]}. It was then ported to X11 by Keith Packard^{[citation needed]}. Its popularity is due to its having been run by default at the startup of the GUI in many installations^{[citation needed]}.

Many similar programs have been developed for X and other systems, such as Windows and Java.

The manual pages of xeyes typically claim tongue-in-cheek 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
• XEyes for Windows, ReactOS and Wine
• iEyes for Mac OS X
• 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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