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#!/bin/sh
# $Revision: 1.3 $
# Luis Mondesi < lemsx1@hotmail.com >
# Last modified: 2003-Oct-25
#
# DESCRIPTION: uses fortunes and Xdialog to display a short fortune
# to the user
#
# INSTALLATION: needs fortunes ( :-) ) and recode
#
# USAGE: $0
# CHANGELOG:
#
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH
GTKRC="/usr/share/themes/Nuvola/gtk-1.0/gtkrc"
# must add to 100%
PROBABILITY="10% off 80% nietzsche.fortunes 10% all"
MESSAGE="`/usr/games/fortune -s $PROBABILITY | recode -q ISO-8859-1..utf-8`"
echo $MESSAGE
if [ -z "$MESSAGE" ]; then
# DEFAULT (in case of blank messages)
MESSAGE="Quien no sabe mentir no sabe lo que es verdad
Friedrich Nietzsche, 'Así habló Zaratustra'."
fi
if [ -x "/usr/bin/zenity" ]; then
# zenity --info \
# --text="`/usr/games/fortune -s`" \
# --title="Fortune"
zenity --calendar \
--text="$MESSAGE" \
--title="Fortune"
else
Xdialog --rc-file "$GTKRC" \
--backtitle "Today's Fortune" \
--title "Fortune" \
--allow-close \
--ok-label "Ok" \
--left \
--msgbox "$MESSAGE" \
0 0
fi
