This xsheep is an incredibly early version of an X clone of Esheep as found
at http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2269/esheep.htm and as requested at
http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar_dateoffers.html . Consider it a pre-pre
release.

The current sheep is awesomely primitive and just shows that the sheep is practical
under X. Run make to compile it. It will endlessly fall from the top and turn 
left, falling and sliding of the windows until it goes off the bottom, only to 
repeat at the top. There is a 1 in 30 chance (or somthing) that it will 
fireball and rentry in a dramatic fashion from topright to bottomleft.

It will sometimes go to sleep, walk/run, jump at the edges of windows, splat
after a long fall, bounce after a medium fall etc etc.

It uses the Xshape extension as exampled in xwhirl, timers as found in xshow and
Xpm to generate Pixmaps and transparent masks. It is possible to not use the Xshape
extension, but it is uber flaky if that happens, and redraw is a real pain. I suppose
though that is it possible that with somewindow managers that a title bar might appear
over the sheep, hopefully most windowmanagers will honour the request not to do that,
but you never know. (p.s. I use afterstep, and it works alright there)

Original Document Date: Tue Aug 10 14:17:36 IST 1999
Author: Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie

Real Life: Caolan McNamara           *  Doing: MSc in HCI
Work: Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie          *  Phone: +353-86-8790257
URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan    *  Sig: an oblique strategy
Do the words need changing?