I was thinking "this reminds me of stuff we messed around with in the 1990s", then I realized it's the same stuff:
A demo video that's 50% package installation output, 50% early-2000s mouse cursor changer. And I watched every second of it
I really hope this gets ported to Wayland someday, I'd love to have a little neko in my computer!
I use Arch with Wayland and it worked... Sort of....the idle animation was a bit busy as in it looked a lot like the frames between each animation weren't erasing, but the mouse chase worked quite well.
It works (somewhat) while your cursor is hovering over XWayland windows but once you move over something native it will keep chasing to the last spot.
I’m definitely curious if it would work if you SSH’d to a Linux machine from iOS. cmatrix works perfectly, but this seems like it has more opportunity for error since it seems to follow your mouse, which wouldn’t be connected on most phones.