lost cursor.

[William Mattison]

(Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops)

I have two 27-inch monitors on my system.  Occasionally, I "lose" the cursor. 
(ok, who's that that I hear snickering out there?!)  I recall years ago (two jobs ago)
on the Unix system at work, we had a tool called "xeyes" which amounted to a
pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor and always "followed"
the cursor.  It was great.  Just what I need now!  But when I launch the
"Software" tool on my system and look for xeyes, it doesn't find it.  How do
I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system?

thanks,
Bill.

lost cursor. [SOLVED]

[William Mattison]

Good morning,


> (Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops)
>
> I have two 27-inch monitors on my system.  Occasionally, I "lose" the cursor. 
> (ok, who's that that I hear snickering out there?!)  I recall years ago (two jobs ago)
> on the Unix system at work, we had a tool called "xeyes" which amounted to a
> pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor and always "followed"
> the cursor.  It was great.  Just what I need now!  But when I launch the
> "Software" tool on my system and look for xeyes, it doesn't find it.  How do
> I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system?
>
> thanks,
> Bill. 

I installed the wmeyes.  It works.  But I didn't see a way of customizing the size or
position of the eyes.

I installed the "X.Org X11 applications" to get xeyes.  It works.  I can
customize the position, the size, and the colors of the eyes.  This is the solution
I'm going with.  To make the eyes show up and work automatically when I log in, I
added the line:

/usr/bin/xeyes &


to my ".bash_profile" twice.  Each line has different options so each monitor
has a pair of eyes.  One pair would be adequate; two pair is just a personal preference.

Now if only I could make the eyes look blood-shot!  :)


Thank-you for your help: Murph, Ed, Ranjan, and Reindl.
Bill.

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 07:10:01 -0700 William Mattison
<wcmattison(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:

>  (Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops)
>  
>  I have two 27-inch monitors on my system.  Occasionally, I "lose" the cursor. 
> (ok, who's that that I hear snickering out there?!)  I recall years ago (two jobs ago)
> on the Unix system at work, we had a tool called "xeyes" which amounted to a
> pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor and always "followed"
> the cursor.  It was great.  Just what I need now!  But when I launch the
> "Software" tool on my system and look for xeyes, it doesn't find it.  How do
> I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system? 
sudo yum install xorg-x11-apps

>  
>  thanks,
>  Bill. 
HTH,
Ranjan

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[Reindl Harald]

Am 02.07.2013 16:10, schrieb William Mattison:
>  I have two 27-inch monitors on my system.  Occasionally, I
> "lose" the cursor.  (ok, who's that that I hear
>  snickering out there?!)  I recall years ago (two jobs ago) on the Unix system at work, we
> had a tool called "xeyes"
>  which amounted to a pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor and always
> "followed" the cursor.  It
>  was great.  Just what I need now!  But when I launch the "Software" tool on my
> system and look for xeyes, it
>  doesn't find it.  How do I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system? 
"yum search eyes" starts with the follwoing packages
that's why it is preferred by advanced users......

wmeyes.x86_64 : Dockapp with moving eyes that follow mouse movement
xfce4-eyes-plugin.x86_64 : Eyes for the Xfce panel

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/02/13 22:10, William Mattison wrote:
>  (Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops)
>
>  I have two 27-inch monitors on my system.  Occasionally, I "lose" the cursor. 
> (ok, who's that that I hear snickering out there?!)  I recall years ago (two jobs ago)
> on the Unix system at work, we had a tool called "xeyes" which amounted to a
> pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor and always "followed"
> the cursor.  It was great.  Just what I need now!  But when I launch the
> "Software" tool on my system and look for xeyes, it doesn't find it.  How do
> I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system?
>
>  thanks,
>  Bill.
>
>  
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ yum whatprovides */xeyes
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
google-chrome/primary                                      | 1.8 kB  00:00:00    
google-chrome                                                                 3/3
google-earth                                                                  1/1
google-chrome/filelists                                    | 1.1 kB  00:00:00    
xorg-x11-apps-7.6-6.fc18.x86_64 : X.Org X11 applications
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/xeyes



xorg-x11-apps-7.7-1.fc18.x86_64 : X.Org X11 applications
Repo        : updates
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/xeyes


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[murph]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, William Mattison <wcmattison(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:
>  (Fedora-18; 64-bit; all desktops)
>
>  I have two 27-inch monitors on my system.  Occasionally, I "lose" the
>  cursor.  (ok, who's that that I hear snickering out there?!)  I recall years
>  ago (two jobs ago) on the Unix system at work, we had a tool called "xeyes"
>  which amounted to a pair of eyes which were always displayed on the monitor
>  and always "followed" the cursor.  It was great.  Just what I need now!  But
>  when I launch the "Software" tool on my system and look for xeyes, it
>  doesn't find it.  How do I get xeyes for my 64-bit Fedora-18 system? 



Bill:

Not sure about xeyes, but in the mouse control panel, there is an
option to flash the cursor (big concentric circles) when the ctrl key
is pressed.  This may help if you can't find what you're looking for.

  --murph

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