On 10-10-2024 08:15PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2024-10-10 23:45, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/10/24 3:05 PM, Sam Exner wrote:
It is installable for me from the main repositories on both Leap and Tumbleweed.
As far back as 7.0 Pro, fortune was installed by default. I used to have to dig to turn it off. Not sure the issue pj is having, but fortune has been part of the distribution for at least two decades -- probably longer.
It has been available since I installed SuSE the first time in 1998, version 5.3 :-)
But it is not enabled by default, the lines that activate it on login are commented out in ~/.profile
So no fortunes package is even needed to be installed in order for it to work? Left the lines commented out on this machine here > cat ~/.profile # Sample .profile for SUSE Linux # rewritten by Christian Steinruecken <cstein@suse.de> # # This file is read each time a login shell is started. # All other interactive shells will only read .bashrc; this is particularly # important for language settings, see below. test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile || true # Some applications read the EDITOR variable to determine your favourite text # editor. So uncomment the line below and enter the editor of your choice :-) #export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim #export EDITOR=/usr/bin/mcedit # For some news readers it makes sense to specify the NEWSSERVER variable here #export NEWSSERVER=your.news.server # Some people don't like fortune. If you uncomment the following lines, # you will have a fortune each time you log in ;-) #if [ -x /usr/bin/fortune ] ; then # echo # /usr/bin/fortune # echo #fi A fortune still appears on each new tab opened in konsole for instance:> ______________________________________________ / Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That \ | means I *must* be right. :-) | | | | -- Larry Wall in | \ <199710211959.MAA18990@wall.org> / ---------------------------------------------- \ \ \ _..~~~~~‾‾‾‾‾‾‾~~~~~._ |‾--.____ _.~‾ ‾~.. ‾‾--._ _.~‾ --- ‾. .~ / \ \ / \ / ) / _ --- ) / ________ ‾-_ __) / / ¯_ ‾-___--‾‾ / / / _-------_ ¯. ~~~~~~~~ /‾~~__ _~¯ | / / _____ \ \ / \ | ‾‾~~~~~~‾ | | | | _ \ \ \ / \ | \ | \ V | | | \ | \ \ \ \ \___/ | / \| \| \ \______/ / \_________/
I have no idea what the cow thing he mentions is.
A "cow" can be any ascii image as shown above. Above is an example of chameleon.cow located in usr/share/cowsay/cows Can this be shrunk down a bit?