Re: fortune

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

To put messages on the X screen at login, use

fortune | xmessage -file -

to put the box on the screen.

To make this part of the default login sequence on gnome, figure out
how the Gnome config file ( /usr/share/gnome/default.session) works
and add it.

BE VERY CAREFUL in a live environment, as it is quite possible to
rewrite this type of file to completely break GUI login.  Do this on
a machine that other people aren't using, and have another way to
log in via ssh.  You may also want to learn about "failsafe" mode.

If you want a fun challenge after this, figure out how to display
random fortune quotes in a box on the login screen. :-)

Alan

PRASADSL iocl co in wrote:

>
> i just installed a game or what ever was that called Fortune it
> gives a nice messages when invoked ...now i want that is gives
> messages when ever anyone logs in his x windows ....i want it to
> display the message in  a window
>