xcowsay-utils

1. What is it?

It’s yet another haude-utils. Wraps the xcowsay command to your will.

2. How to Start.

2.1 Getting it

The extra faces (pics) are not included in code [master] branch you can check the dump branch.

Or download separately from releases

2.3 Installing

TL;DR

$ git clone https://github.com/haude/xcowsay-utils /path/to/destination
$ cd /path/to/destination
$ ./configure
$ sudo make install

Manually

$ git clone https://github.com/haude/xcowsay-utils /path/to/destination
$ cd /path/to/destination
$ wget https://github.com/haude/xcowsay-utils/archive/faces-data-1.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf faces-data-1.0.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir ln -s $PWD/main.sh /usr/local/bin/xcowsay-utils

2.2 Bootstrap

2.2.1 Make accessible

Add the symlink to /usr/local/bin/ for commandline execution.

ls -s /path/to/xcowsay-utils/main.sh /usr/local/bin/xcowsay-utils

2.2.2 Using cron jobs

*/20 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 /path/to/xcowsay-utils/main.sh