xeyes(1x)

xeyes1x

A follow the mouse x demo

Usage

xeyes [-option ...]

Overview

Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.

Options

-fg foreground color

choose a different color for the pupil of the eyes.

-bg background color

choose a different color for the background.

-outline outline color

choose a different color for the outline of the eyes.

-center center color

choose a different color for the center of the eyes.

-backing { WhenMapped Always NotUseful }

selects an appropriate level of backing store.

-geometry geometry

define the initial window geometry; see X(7x).

-display display

specify the display to use; see X(7x).

-bd border color

choose a different color for the window border.

-bw border width

choose a different width for the window border.

-shape

uses the SHAPE extension to shape the window. This is the default.

+shape

Disables uses the SHAPE extension to shape the window.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 1.1–2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1

Author

Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
Copied from the NeWS version written (apparently) by Jeremy Huxtable as seen at SIGGRAPH '88

From xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge7 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.