[plug] Mouse pointer trails? CAFire

[Leon Brooks]

Andrew Furey wrote:

> I was wondering whether anyone would have any
> experience with mouse pointer trails in X, a la
> Windows & co.

> I read in a mini-HOWTO on the subject (the
> "X-Big-Cursor" one, I think) that at present, to the
> author's knowledge, there was no way to do it, and
> that it would probably require modification of X
> itself to leave duplicate pointers on the screen.

There is a cellular-automata demo somewhere which gives you a fireball 
mouse trail. You could do it easily enough using (a) shaped 
always-on-top never-takes-focus window(s) to hold the trails. But (as 
with Windows) it would cost you much CPU.

I think this is the example I've seen:

     http://home.zcu.cz/~cimrman3/cafire.html