Tips

[Joe Klemmer]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 01:29, Biju Chacko wrote:

> > As I agree that "fortune" is needed to get fortune messages :) I
> > hardly understand why forture is required when "tips" is selected, and
> > even why fortune missing prevents xfce4-tips to display tips at all...
> 
> I assume it uses fortune-style .dat file to store the tips and uses
> fortune to display them. This is acceptable reuse of available tools
> IMHO.
> 
> On RH, fortune is installed in /usr/games/fortune which is not in the
> $PATH. Add it to $PATH and it works.

	What about on systems that don't have fortune installed?  My home box
does but at work we don't install fortune.

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