xcowsay xcowsay is a cute cow for your Linux desktop.
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xcowsay is a cute cow for your Linux desktop. xcowsay is a cute cow for your Linux desktop. Inspired by the original cowsay.Usage: xcowsay ... ...Display a cow on your desktop with MESSAGE or standard input.Options: -h, --help Display this message and exit. -v, --version Print version information. -t, --time=SECONDS Number of seconds to display message for -r, --reading-speed=N Number of milliseconds to delay per word. -f, --font=FONT Set message font (Pango format). -d, --daemon Run xcowsay in daemon mode. --cow-size=SIZE Size of the cow (small, med, large). --debug Keep daemon attached to terminal.Default values for these options can be specified in the xcowsay configfile. See the man page for more information.If the display_time option is not set the display time will be calcuatedfrom the reading_speed parameter multiplied by the word count.Installation instructions:./configuremakemake installIf you don't want DBus support configure with --disable-dbus Here are some key features of "xcowsay": · Fully configurable! · Calculates display time from amount of text · Daemon mode! Send your cow messages over DBus! · Three different sized cows provided · fortune(6) wrapper program: xcowfortune - cow will deliver pearls of wisdom! · Replace the naffness that is xmessage · Should work with any window manager · Supports UTF-8 characters properly What's New in This Release: · This version adds a new "dream" mode that displays images in the cow's thought bubble. · There's also a new "think" mode that displays text in a thought bubble. · Many bugs from 1.0 have been fixed.

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