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Every new release of (mac)OS( X), I rush to see whether the Grab.app creepy eye camera[0] has been replaced, and every time I breathe a sigh of relief. Sadly though, a few versions ago it stopped following the mouse cursor.

0. https://imgur.com/a/xT3Od

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Nice easter egg! I just checked it myself. Although the eye doesn't "follow" the cursor, it still animates when you move the cursor, if you choose Capture -> Selection or Screen, but not if you Capture Window.

El Capitan here, creepy eye is still creepy and following my cursor around. Don't have Sierra machine to test at the moment.

still present in sierra.

It doesn't follow the mouse pointer.

Does anyone know of a macOS equivalent of xeyes?

You have to select "selection" mode, the others modes don't follow.

My (20 seconds) experience: In "selection" mode there is an eye and it moves when my mouse moves, but it does not follow the mouse pointer. For example, I could move my mouse to the right, and the eye will go both left and right, or I could move my mouse up and down and the eye will still go left and right.

Me too! It's one of the first things I check when upgrading. I was worried it wouldn't survive the first Retina version of Lion and then the flattening of Yosemite, but nope, it's still going strong. I hope they're leaving it in as an Easter egg intentionally.

I had no idea that Grab.app was still around, because Preview.app does mostly the same thing. I'd guess it is hanging around as a backward-compatibility thing.

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