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14.0 > Games > xcowsay (1.3)

xcowsay displays a cute cow and message on your desktop. Inspired by
the original cowsay.

xcowsay includes all these amazing features:

* Fully configurable!
* Calculates display time from amount of text
* Dream mode — display images in the bubble
* Can draw thought and speech bubbles
* Daemon mode! Send your cow messages over DBus!
* Three different sized cows provided
* fortune(6) wrapper program: xcowfortune — cow will deliver pearls of wisdom!
* Replace the naffness that is xmessage(1)
* Should work with any window manager
* Supports UTF-8 characters properly
* Use alternative non-cow images if you like.

Maintained by: B. Watson
Keywords:
ChangeLog: xcowsay

Homepage:
http://www.doof.me.uk/xcowsay/

Source Downloads:
xcowsay-1.3.tar.gz (ffcad22a9002d2a5c37d9d302b9614d1)

Download SlackBuild:
xcowsay.tar.gz
xcowsay.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)

(the SlackBuild does not include the source)

Individual Files:
README
slack-desc
xcowsay.SlackBuild
xcowsay.info

Validated for Slackware 14.0

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