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sl-fortune (a fortune notification in X with a slack-ish icon)

sl-fortune (Slack Fortune) calls fortune and sends the output to
your desktop via notify-send. Three slack-themed icons are provided.

When run as root the icon can be set to one of {tux, bob, slk}.
#sl-fortune bob

Start on login by running with the --install flag.
$sl-fortune -i

Random delay by default, or when run with the -r flag.
$sl-fortune -r

To disable, remove the -r flag in ~/.config/autostart/sl-fortune.desktop

J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
Visit http://www.subgenius.com for the good word from the Slack Master.

Inspired by cb-fortune in Crunchbang Linux.
sl-fortune v0.11, copyright (c) 2021 David Ferrone
May be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2.0

Maintained by: David Ferrone
Keywords: fortune,slack,slackware
ChangeLog: sl-fortune

Homepage:
https://zapwai.net/sl-fortune/

Source Downloads:
sl-fortune-0.11.tar.gz (968af13b3cde382b1c0af4123a0282b6)

Download SlackBuild:
sl-fortune.tar.gz
sl-fortune.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)

(the SlackBuild does not include the source)

Validated for Slackware 15.0

See our HOWTO for instructions on how to use the contents of this repository.

Access to the repository is available via:
ftp git cgit http rsync

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