Tue, 6 Feb 2024 07:19:58 -0500
"Ben T. Fender"
My 3 or 4 KDE-employing systems all use xeyes as the mouse-arrow locating utility since an earlier one called mouse-trails died out in the 4.x epoch. Gotta have something like this with 1920+ resolution.
https://imgur.com/1ADm9h8.png {OT: wallpaper is my snow-removal log, clearly shows warming}
To get the eyes there I drop links into a remote 'bashers-linked' folder that contains links to bash scripts such as my-xeyes.bsh elsewhere, the .profile file is also a link to a common remote .profile file with lines such as these in it:
cd 0/bashers-linked bash my-xeyes-launch.bsh
The reason I link is to protect the folder of real scripts :-)
I use this system in TW, Slowroll, Artix and maybe annother KDE setup (about half use KDE, the other half XFCE). There have been issues needing fixing from tiome to time, the latest one is that booting TW erases the links. I'd like to trap the culprit but don't really know how, but it is a PITA.
More tries reveal that in the case of both Slowroll anf TW scripts in the 'bashers-linked' folder called to execute do so before the folder gets emptied of all it's content regardless of whether its links or scripts.