Geeze, that's a blast from the past. You know it's funny- I used to periodically go looking for things to customize my desktop experience. This, those little dogs and cats, Rainmeter, Amiga workbench hacks, etc. etc. Nowadays- I supposed finally burned by enough malware and having become curmudgeonly- I want the most minimal "plain vanilla" setup I can get and pride myself in hardly ever installing _anything_.
One word: xroach
Sadly xroach appears to be missing from debian. A quick search indicates the source is encumbered somehow. Xeyes is still there though
It’s not in the distribution, but some kind soul updated the source code for modern compilers.