Package Info

xcowsay

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Tool that displays a cow and message on the X11 desktop

Amusements/Toys/Other
xcowsay displays a cow and message on the X11 desktop.
Inspired by the original cowsay.


xcowsay includes all these amazing features:


    

  • Fully configurable.
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  • Calculates display time from amount of text
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  • Dream mode — display images in the bubble
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  • Can draw thought and speech bubbles
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  • Daemon mode. Send your cow messages over DBus.
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  • Three different sized cows provided
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  • fortune(6) wrapper program - (unavailable temporarily)
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  • Replace the naffness that is xmessage(1)
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  • Should work with any window manager
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  • Supports UTF-8 characters properly
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  • Automatic word wrapping
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  • Use alternative non-cow images if you like
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License: GPL-3.0-or-later
URL: https://www.doof.me.uk/xcowsay/

Categories

Amusements Toys Other

Releases

Package Version Update ID Released Package Hub Version Platforms Subpackages
1.6-bp155.1.8 info GA Release 2023-05-22 15 SP5
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • xcowsay
1.5.1-bp154.1.67 info GA Release 2022-05-12 15 SP4
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • xcowsay
1.3-bp153.1.16 info GA Release 2021-03-06 15 SP3
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • xcowsay
1.3-bp152.3.18 info GA Release 2020-04-16 15 SP2
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • xcowsay
1.3-bp151.3.1 info GA Release 2019-07-17 15 SP1
  • AArch64
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • xcowsay
1.3-bp151.2.13 info GA Release 2019-05-18 15 SP1
  • ppc64le
  • xcowsay
1.3-bp150.2.4 info GA Release 2018-07-30 15
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • xcowsay