[PLUG] Low Vis Xeye

[Keith Lofstrom]

OK, the geyes applet is cute.  It has been perched on the
ends of my gnome panel for years, and xeyes was on the
X desktop of my first Unix workstation in the 1980s.

But /my/ eyes are getting poorer, and the little pupils
of the stock geyes pairs are becoming difficult to see.  

I was about to beg for help reprogramming geyes, so I 
could have ONE eye (at each corner) that was larger and
higher contrast.  However, it turns out all I had to do
was change a config file parameter and one of the png
images associated with it.

I'm using mate (though I am told gnome3 can now be
re-configured like gnome2), so the files are in folders
in /usr/local/share/mate-applets/geyes/.  In that
directory, I copied the folder Default and its contents
to a new folder Keith, and changed the line num-eyes in
the config file in that folder from 2 to 1.  

I used gimp to modify the file Default-eye.png in that
folder, filling the shaded pseudo-ellipse in the center
with white.  Note that the file names are in config,
so the filenames need not be changed in config or in
the folder itself.

Then select applet preferences over the geyes applet,
change to eyes Keith, and voila, one properly scaled
white eye with a high contrast white field.

I might fiddle with the scaling a bit more, to free up
a wee bit more panel space, but one eye at each corner
rather than two frees up quite a lot.

I have quite a few machines, so I'll merely rsync the
Keith folder to the others as well.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com