fortune Mod Quotes in Debain
 

I was wondering if there was a way to get the quotes that pop up when you log into slackware in debian. I was also curious to what the command to pick the window manager you want to use if your not using GDM? I've already tried xwmconfig with a command not found responds

I believe the quotes come from a program called fortune..

aptitude update
aptitude install fortune
then edit the /home/username/.bashrc
http://debaday.debian.net/2007/04/01...okies-for-all/


heres info on changing window managers.
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/changeman.html
http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/981/4/

It's "fortunes" with an "s".

A nice way to use them is as the sources for screensaver programs that display text, like "Starwars"

Can't remember if it's the same for Debian, but in Ubuntu I've put (just before the prompt section) in ~/.bashrc:

The -s option gives a short quote.
Got it from the example .bashrc in the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide".

Thanks for your help. I now have the fortune program. How do I make it execute every time I login a terminal like in slackware? Is there a easier way to switch between window managers from the text based login screen (I don't want to use GDM or any other GNU login manager).

editing .bashrc has been mentioned twice already...

Thanks I noticed the difference after I restarted my pc.