xeji doesn't follow mouse outside of its window.

Hi! Do you still have the same problem at Gutsy ?

Given that the sole change between 1.2-11ubuntu1 (in Dapper) and 1.2-11ubuntu2 (in Gutsy) was an update to the maintainer listed in debian/control (according to the changelog, at least), it seems very unlikely that the package is fixed.

I'm still on Dapper, but I've asked someone I know who uses Gutsy to check it out.

It seems I forgot to update this at the time; I apologize.

I'm now running on Hardy, and this is still present.

Looking at the source, I think the reason xeyes can follow the pointer outside of its window and xeji can't is that they use two different ways of getting the mouse's position. xeyes uses Xt functions--specifically, XtAppAddTimeOut--to query the mouse position every so often. xeji doesn't use Xt, and so has to wait for events; it updates the eye position when it receives events, but this is only when the mouse is actually over the window. It might be possible to make xeji check the event stack (so it still responds to events), but in the absence of that, simply call sleep() and redraw in that fashion. I don't know if there's a good reason to use the Xt functions instead of just doing that.