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speyes - South Park Eyes Audin Malmin amalmin@halcyon.com

But why?:

Well, after having the original wmeyes on my dock for months I decided that it would be nifty to have something funnier to look at. So speyes was born...

To build:

        xmkmf
        make
        make install 
        (or just 'cp speyes /usr/local/bin' if you prefer it elsewhere)

        You might want to strip the binary first, though.

Then what:

As below...

for Windowmaker: wmeyes -w -s &

You can specify which character to use with the -f option:

wmeyes -w -s -f kenny &

Thanks

To Bryan Feir, author of wmeyes

whoever originally drew the south park GIFs I used (the same gifs are used on thousands of web sites...) Anyone who has ever worked to help improve any GNU/open source software.

Original README:

But why?:

That's a question I've asked myself a few times, to be honest. The idea just hit me one day, helped along by a friend of mine who has a Mac that has eyes in its menubar. Between that, and my interest in doing a dock app for WindowMaker, this was the result. I expect any other dock apps I do to have somewhat more functionality.

How to build:

xmkmf
make
make install (or just 'cp wmaker /usr/local/bin' if you prefer it there)

Comments

Well, not much to say about this, to be honest. It's not exactly a complicated program; in fact, once it's running, there's nothing more you can do with it except watch it.

The 'time' parameter on the command line affects both the update time of the pupil moving around, and the time it takes for the eyelids to open or close. These two can't be separated.

The standard method of starting it up under WindowMaker is 'wmeyes -w -s &'.

Credits

Thanks to whoever 'rws' was at the old X Consortium, the crazy fellow who

wrote the original xeyes that was my inspiration. Thanks to 'shawkie' (shawkie@geocities.com) and of course Rob Malda

(malda@slashdot.org) for their numerous examples of how to write a WindowMaker dock app. Thanks to Masayuki Koba, the author of xneko, for the demonstration of how

to do a mouse-follower without descending into the chaos that is Xt intrinsics like xeyes does.