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Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:47 am
by clem
- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.

Clem

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:07 pm
by JohnH
I also thank you.
John

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:46 am
by accel
Just put a # in front of the line /usr/games/fortune
has the same effect.

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:23 am
by Sorensei
Sanchopinky wrote:What kind of ruthless animal would want them gone? :wink:

I personally love 'em!
Yeah... me too. :wink:
But we've had a sensitive few who'd felt offended... or simply annoyed. So it's better to provide a mean to remove them before someone blows a fuse (ugly, ugly, let me tell you)...

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:10 am
by OnlyMe
Okay, so I am late to this party but when I saw the How To topic here I just couldn't believe my eyes :shock: and simply had to read this thread. I love those fortunes.

Here is another example of Linux and choice! Gotta love it.

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:07 pm
by msuggs
wierdo124 wrote:They're awesome!
Agreed, how can you go past gems like this
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( You are confused; but this is your )
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Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:32 pm
by fredbird67
SonOfMoog, from one Christian to another, thanks for the tip about replacing fortunes with a Bible verse. :-)

Don't get me wrong here, I love a good laugh, but I did run across a fortune once that offended me, and in fact, I went back to straight Ubuntu for a while because of it, that's how much it offended me. As a married man, it offended me greatly when one day I saw a message saying "you will be divorced within a year". That deeply offended me, because it took me 35 years to find the lady who is now my wife, and by golly, I intend to keep her as long as we both shall live.

Here while back, I ran across where one can stop the fortunes from appearing, and I have heard of the "Verse" program, but I had never put two and two together like you did, with replacing the fortunes with a Bible verse. I currently use Ubuntu 9.04, but when Mint 8 comes out in about a month or so, I plan to return to that, and that's one of the first things I'll be doing with my Mint installation when that time comes. Thanx for the tip! :-)

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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:07 pm
by Aevum
Sanchopinky wrote:What kind of ruthless animal would want them gone? :wink:

I personally love 'em!
I got kind of surprised when, after installing Mint (I used to have Ubuntu) I discovered those animals in there in the terminal, but I do personally love 'em as well, also because Mark Twain is one of my favorite writers and also Shakespeare is, so.. mix it with some fortune telling quotations and.. I just love 'em!

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:01 pm
by Husse
And they are not really Mint specials as I think they are there in a normal bash - only waiting to be activated :)

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:25 pm
by Aevum
Husse wrote:And they are not really Mint specials as I think they are there in a normal bash - only waiting to be activated :)
Cool! This means I'm gonna run them on my Ubuntu partition as well :P

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:05 pm
by ibm450
clem wrote:- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.

Clem
-o0o-
  • excellent - the fortune messages were starting to give me the ***** :mrgreen:

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:25 am
by Mintylamb
Could you please respect each others opinions?

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:53 am
by Husse
I don't find any disrespect in this topic - different opinions, yes - disrespect no ... but I may have overlooked something :shock:

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:56 pm
by ibm450
-o0o-
  • im sorry, but im not being disrespecting of opinions here, just expression my own opinion that i found that the fortune s*** very annoying and took up unnecessary space and time to load up terminal time? btw alot of people have requested of removing the stupid fortune thing any ways?????????????

    so whats so dis-respectful of my own opinion????

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:32 pm
by Mintylamb
Actually I wasn't saying this to you specificaliy. If I had I would PM you.

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:31 pm
by Husse
Careful....

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:27 pm
by x0fx3
Thanks for the howto. :)

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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:34 am
by Mr. Alex
mumbo719 wrote:While you have the terminal open remove the fortune program.

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get remove fortune
Does it delete fortune database with all the quotes? Or after this command quotes are still in the system?

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:49 pm
by rius64
Very useful, thanks

Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:50 am
by Totenglocke
Well crap. I did sudo apt-get remove fortune, and it messed up my themes (default ones included in Mint). Any ideas on how to fix this?