Xantfarm was a particular favorite of mine. Made coming into work on a Monday mo...

fullstop · on Dec 10, 2021

If you're like me and this doesn't work because you've moved on to Wayland, I was able to run it as follows:

    # Xwayland :2 &
    # export DISPLAY=:2
    # ./xantfarm

cbsmith · on Dec 10, 2021

xroach: https://github.com/interkosmos/xroach

taftster · on Dec 10, 2021

Came here to reminisce about xroach.

Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon that the security configuration of an X workstation was open to external windows/display. e.g. you could run a program on your system, but target your neighbor's display.

I think universities did this to make it easier to help/troubleshoot a workstation remotely, but once you figured out the commands, xroach was one of my favorites to run on another machine.

cbsmith · on Dec 14, 2021

It was just the default setup for X in general. You had to lock it down to avoid it. My goodness that was sooo much fun though. ;-)