Need info on finding a terminal program

[scampbell70]

I tried Mint for a few days and one thing I really liked was that the terminal had witty little quotes when I opened it. I am wondering how this is done, is there different terminals that you can download that include such things or is that an add on that you can download to add to any terminal.


Thanks for the help in advance

[VCoolio]

It's not the terminal app, you can do that in any terminal. Put a command that produces a quote at the end of the file ~/.bashrc and voila. Like explained here, only where it says "sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc" you can just do "gedit ~/.bashrc" as well, no need for root permissions. You need to do gksudo with graphical apps like gedit anyway.
Explanation: the point is, your terminal app runs bash when it starts. Bash does everything that /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc tells it to do, like how the prompt looks like and load aliases and stuff. If you add a command in ~/.bashrc, at the end, it will be executed every time bash is started, like when a terminal is opened. Run "bash" inside a terminal and you'll have the quote again.

[scampbell70]

thanks I will look it up and let you know how it goes.

[rubylaser]

I believe Mint just uses fortune and cowsay to do the funny quips. You can set it up like this...

sudo apt-get install fortune cowsay

Then edit your .bashrc like this

sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc

And paste this at the bottom

fortune | cowsay -n
echo

Hope that helps.

Edit: I Should have read above post, covers exactly what I said

[scampbell70]

Thank you both that is exactly what I was looking for and it works awesome.