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Noseguy Screensaver - Customisable Messages

Hey guys; New to the whole forums thing, so if I have posted this in the wrong place then please let me know!

I've been using Gnome for a while, and I have just gotten Debian Lenny on my laptop. I have been trying to change the messages on the screensaver called Noseguy to something custom, like lyrics. I was just wondering if there was any easy way to write a file that doesn't display every word in it, like how fortunes work with the screensaver, or is that asking a little too much?

I've been trying to hack away at it for a few days, but I don't really want to attempt to pull apart fortunes and seeing how that works, cause I'll probably accidentally save over fortunes. Any ideas?

Thanks guys,

Josaphina

I've not used noseguy, but it looks like you can enter either a shell command for the text source?

It that case, there are a couple of option. To create a new fortune file, first create a text file then run it through strfile to create a file that you can pass to fortune.

But that's a bit of hassle; you might want to look at a simpler fortune file (http://www.fefe.de/fortune/)

You could also write your own program. For example:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -W



my @lines = split /\n/, <<EOF;

Put your strings here

One line per string

No blank lines

EOF



print $lines[int rand scalar @lines];

print "\n"

Oh! I see! I'll definately give that a try. Thank you very much! =^-^=