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Install this package:

emerge -a games-misc/xcowsay

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask games-misc/xcowsay

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a games-misc/xcowsay

Package Information

Description:

xcowsay displays a cute cow and message on your desktop. Inspired by the original cowsay. It 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 - Automatic word wrapping - Use alternative non-cow images if you like

Homepage:

https://github.com/nickg/xcowsay https://www.doof.me.uk/xcowsay/

License:

GPL-3+

Versions

Metadata

Description

• xcowsay displays a cute cow and message on your desktop. Inspired by the original cowsay. It 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 - Automatic word wrapping - Use alternative non-cow images if you like

Maintainers

• Conrad Kostecki (conikost@gentoo.org) - Type: person

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • github: nickg/xcowsay

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>conikost@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Conrad Kostecki</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
		xcowsay displays a cute cow and message on your desktop.
		Inspired by the original cowsay. It 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
		- Automatic word wrapping
		- Use alternative non-cow images if you like
	</longdescription>
	<use>
		<flag name="fortune">Enable support for fortune cookies via <pkg>games-misc/fortune-mod</pkg></flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="github">nickg/xcowsay</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] USE flag 'dbus' in ebuild 1.6 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Warning] USE flag 'nls' in ebuild 1.6 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild xcowsay-1.6

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p games-misc/xcowsay | euse -E <flag> -p games-misc/xcowsay | euse -D <flag> -p games-misc/xcowsay

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