re: fortune wish command

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

I got it to work by taking these lines out of xfortune:

# fortune --
# Simple Tk script to create a button that prints fortune message.
# Click on the button to terminate the program.
#
#  Author: Santoh Pasi <santoshpasi yahoo com>
set myvariable [ exec /usr/games/fortune ] ;
button .fortune -text "$myvariable" -command exit
pack .fortune

and putting them in my home directory in the .wishrc file, then I can click
on the Gnome foot and then Run and just type wish in the text box and NOT
click on Run in Terminal. That brings up a wish box with the fortune as the
button to click to exit.

I then added it as one of the startup programs to be run, and it came up
nicely.

I also tried putting it in /etc/wishrc, but that file isn't checked so I had
to put it in ~/.wishrc to get it to work every time.

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Karl L. Pearson
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 PRASADSL iocl co in wrote:

i tried the xfortune ...changed the permisson as
chmod 777 xfortune ...
but still the message come as
cannot execute .../xfortune
the script is attched
thanx









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-----Original Message-----
From: PRASAD,S.L
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:42 PM
To: guinness-list redhat com; redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: fotune santose





santhose bhai ,

sorry aapka xfortune kaam nahi kar raha ....gives error as cannot
execute.../autostart/xfortune ...ab kya error hai ??

the program is attached





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