Linux Mint prints out an awesome fortune-greeting message every time a new terminal window is opened.
However, being a big fan of books, but not really M. Twain, I decided to swap my fortunes to quotes from S. Meyer's books.
For that, I created a new file based on /usr/bin/mint-fortune that grabs a random line from my textfile with Twilight quotes.
I replaced the default mint command in /etc/bash.bashrc with my own, installed the quotes and printer files and… voila!
So now you know what I do in lectures when it gets especially boring.
/usr/bin/twilight-greeter is identical to /usr/bin/mint-fortune except the last line.
#!/bin/bash
RANGE=3
number=$RANDOM
let "number %= $RANGE"
case $number in
0)
cow="moose"
;;
1)
cow="tux"
;;
2)
cow="koala"
;;
esac
RANGE=2
number=$RANDOM
let "number %= $RANGE"
case $number in
0)
command="/usr/games/cowsay"
;;
1)
command="/usr/games/cowthink"
;;
esac
shuf -n 1 /usr/share/twilight_quotes.txt | $command -f $cow