Free wheel of fortune software for linux

Popup Fortune is a python application which takes over your root window and displays on it output of the fortune program in boxes (or whatever program you specify).

It is very much a work in progress, but I find it enjoyable to leave running, and if you do too, great.

Popup Fortune is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Python and X are required. Python-Xlib is also needed, but I am currently including that in the tarball, since, to my knowledge, packages for that are not too common.

In addition, if you do not specify a different command, the default is fortune, so you will need that too.

IMWheel is a daemon for X11, which watches for mouse wheel actions and outputs them as keypresses.

This is a not so short little ditty that does the simple conversion of mouse button presses into key presses. By grabbing only the 4th and 5th mouse buttons the program is able to receive input from the Intellimouse series mice.

There is also a modified version of gpm included that has, already, support for the Intellimouse, and I added a wheel fifo. The user library may also be used, although this may need to be debugged. See the gpm section below for more.

The wheel button can always be used as middle button, this program does not affect how the XServer, nor GPM, react towards it. A mouse with a wheel button is a 3 button mouse, and should be configured as such!

Installation:

The `configure shell script attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent variables used during compilation.

It uses those values to create a `Makefile in each directory of the package. It may also create one or more `.h files containing system-dependent definitions.

Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file `config.cache that saves the results of its tests to speed up
reconfiguring, and a file `config.log containing compiler output (useful mainly for debugging `configure).

If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try to figure out how `configure could check whether to do them, and mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README so they can be considered for the next release.

If at some point `config.cache contains results you dont want to keep, you may remove or edit it.

The file `configure.in is used to create `configure by a program called `autoconf. You only need `configure.in if you want to change it or regenerate `configure using a newer version of `autoconf.

The simplest way to compile this package is:

1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system.

If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.

Running `configure takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.

2. Type `make to compile the package.

3. Optionally, type `make check to run any self-tests that come with the package.

4. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.

5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean. To also remove the files that `configure created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean.

There is also a `make maintainer-clean target, but that is intended mainly for the packages developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came with the distribution.

fortune-fgump project consists of some quotes from the movie Forrest Gump.

This collection of quotes is for use with the fortune program.

fortune-xfiles project consists of various quotes from the X-Files TV episodes for the fortune program.

To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes).

To use it, simply type:

# fortune xfiles

Example:

Mulder: You know, I always wanted a peg-leg. It was a boyhood
thing I never grew out of.

"The X-Files: Quagmire"

This program is a port of the famous BSD game fortune.
This program currently can only be run via the command line. It is ideal for use with various e-mail clients like pine,mutt etc. to insert random quotes at the end of your e-mail or for displaying a random quote when a user logs into your unix box. A more advanced application could be to display random tips in your program.
Main features:
- Written in Java, hence Platform Independent
- Handles multiple quote files.
- Supports fortune style cookie files.
- Supports passing various command line options. More options are being integrated in.
- Easily integrable into other JAVA programms.
- Easy and straighforward code.
- Licensed under GPL which means you can access the source code and make it better according to your likes.

fortune-starwars project is a collection of mod-fortune quotes from Star Wars.

fortune-starwars is a collection of quotes from the movies "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back", and "Return Of The Jedi".

It does not contain quotes from Episodes One to Three, because I don’t really like them.

It is meant for use with the fortune program.

To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes).

To use it, simply type:

# fortune starwars

Yoda:
When nine hundred years old you reach, look as
good you will not. Hmm?

fortune-mod-calvin project is a fortune cookie file with quotes from Calvin and Hobbes.

fortune-mod-calvin is a compilation of quotes from Bill Wattersons fantastic "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip.

The quotes have been compiled from various sources on the Web.