New app: Googly Eyes Eyes that follow your mouse pointer, in your menu bar sindresorhus.com/googly-eyes - ThreadSky

sindresorhus.bsky.social • 2 days ago

New app:

Googly Eyes

Eyes that follow your mouse pointer, in your menu bar

https://sindresorhus.com/googly-eyes

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bradgessler.com•1 day ago

Does it open Google when you click on it with the search pre-filled with the last thing it was looking at?

jswhisperer.bsky.social•1 day ago

I ran out of space in my toolbar months ago but I gotta say I put this on as a primary. I've actually become happier, so much happier.

ongerijmd.com•1 day ago

This is a classic.

asuter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Popping up xeyes on a friends screen at 2am in school was a good way to get them to call it a night.

brooklynpsu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Missed opportunity:

manmal.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wanted to try it but macOS 15.2+ - maybe I should finally upgrade

anne-in-black.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

lowendmac.bsky.social•2 days ago

Article worthy. Reminiscent of the googly eyes app from the classic Mac OS!

https://lowendmac.com/2025/add-a-set-of-googly-eyes-to-your-menu-bar/

dsyzdek.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep. I remember this Mac program.

pantulis.bsky.social•2 days ago

Some people will wonder what this is good for. They haven't used xeyes to find the mouse cursor on a Sun workstation running X11R5!

anitramwaju.malauren.be•1 day ago

Yes, I remember using it on a Sun terminal around 1997.

anitramwaju.malauren.be•1 day ago

But it's possible I used something like it on a Mac even earlier, I don't remember.

wobblefish.bsky.social•1 day ago

Probably the most important piece of software in the 21st centrury. Installed.

timohere.bsky.social•2 days ago

Super sweet idea

klg.bz•1 day ago

Thanks for this wonderful app!

sortafriends.bsky.social•1 day ago

Purest nostalgia hit.

jeblad.bsky.social•1 day ago

The man page for xeyes traces back to 88, but the app is a lot older. https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/xeyes.1.html

harmsen.net•1 day ago

Boring, just for Macs. Post when you figure it out for linux.

chrissmallz.com•1 day ago

Instant download

smileykeith.bsky.social•2 days ago

The blink is so delightful

gracekind.net•1 day ago

@godoglyness.bsky.social you might want to see this

gracekind.net•1 day ago

Wait nvm

godoglyness.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm glad I saw it, this is what technology is all about

semmelstulle.atkins.sh•1 day ago

@sindresorhus xeyes HAS to be an "icon" option for https://Supercharge.app!

semmelstulle.atkins.sh•1 day ago

That’s the wrong Supercharge in the link, can’t I edit Bluesky posts?

ag0ny.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wait, dude, that's xeyes, I used that like, in the last millennia!

prissguerrero1.bsky.social•1 day ago

its very true.

laptopllama.bsky.social•2 days ago

This defeats the whimsical nature, but I do kiiiiiinda want to be able to poke them in the eye. That'll just have to be an in-app purchase.

evandrofisi.co•1 day ago

Xeyes for the new generation

fleamour.bsky.social•1 day ago

RunCat for King!

colintoal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here for innovation like this all day.

amauro85.bsky.social•1 day ago

Didn't Linux have that like a long time ago?

darragh.rogan.ie•1 day ago

In the early 2000s as I recall? KDE on Mandrake I think when I first saw it

chenoehart.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This version definitely has a 2000s aesthetic feel to it too.

orionkidder.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does it?! I have to find that!

jmnetwork.uk•1 day ago

It is a panel widget for XFCE.

treeshateorcs.bsky.social•1 day ago

also the program called xeyes

srescio.bsky.social•2 days ago

👀

kiloqubit.com•2 days ago

So xeyes?

psingletary.com•1 day ago

oo i needed this kind of whimsy!

davenash.com•1 day ago

I've been putting off updating MacOS for a few weeks, now I simply must! 👀

exposuresci.bsky.social•1 day ago

xeyes returns, i see.

sharpshard.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

rafal.fyi•1 day ago

I have a feeling this is something @poppacalypse.bsky.social would enjoy

poppacalypse.bsky.social•22 hours ago

what makes you think i'm that sort of whimsy?!

but also, you are correct ^_^ I LOVE IT :D

phen.dev•2 days ago

Now this is quality software

peshir.nl•1 day ago

New? Think I had something like that running in the nineties somewhere... PC at home? Unix machines at uni? 🤔 Can't remember. Guess you also never heard of Neko chasing your mouse, or that sheep walking on top of windows, huh?

peshir.nl•1 day ago

Read through some of the other replies, and yes, that must have been xeyes at Uni. 🤦🏼‍♂️

shadowdrakken.bsky.social•1 day ago

I need this as an applet for Cinnamon... 👀

andredieb.bsky.social•2 days ago

would be weird if they followed people captured on the webcam

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