On 06/28/2018 02:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/29/18 00:09, Beartooth wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:33:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >> I haven't yet in this case, but I will, yes. Any two pair of eyes >> will indicate an intersection of their lines of sight, but redundancy is >> often convenient, especially if the cursor has snuck off into the tuley- >> weeds. >> >>> I am also able to select "Add to panel" in Mate and select from the menu >>> "eyes" and have "eyes" placed on the panel. Are you saying that >>> selection doesn't exist for you? >> I am indeed saying exactly that, alas!, yes. >> >> An earlier post by "home user via users" says "The executable >> will be "/usr/bin/xeyes." Using that as a command (by root) does create >> one pair of eyes, but they don't make it onto the panel meny. Do I just >> need to reboot? I will in a little while, anyway. > > > OK..... Just a note to others on this thread. MATE has its own "built-in" > eyes > that goes on the panel. So, let's not get off-track. > > The "panel eyes" of MATE are supplied in the package mate-applets. The > current > version is mate-applets-1.20.2-1.fc28. Is that installed? If it is, you may > still > want to try "dnf reinstall mate-applets" to see if that changes things.
Ah, yes, you're quite correct. Xeyes are generic and end up on the root window. Both Xfce and MATE have their own plugins that dock to the menu bars. Xfce's is in the xfce4-eyes-plugin RPM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YRYTSHCAOF5S64CUMQ3EGGSLTW6RC3DO/
