Re: Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:30 pm
Totenglocke, I got the same problem. Your theme must become available again after some time.
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+1Iain wrote:Thanks!
Here is a tutorial from the community on how to remove the cow:CodeCat wrote:I like the fortunes as such, but the ASCII cow takes up too much space. Any idea how I can get rid of the cow while still displaying the message itself, just on one line?
i've tried that and all i get is another blank terminal line....back where i started...so i tried opening it my self and i only get read only permissions and i'm the only user and administrator on my laptop!vincent wrote:Knowledge, have you read the first post in this thread and followed Clem's advice? It's really as simple as that...
A blank terminal line? Isn't that what you want though? I mean, you don't want fortunes in your terminal, so when you re-open a terminal, you won't see any more fortunes. As I've said, if you followed those instructions and deleted the last line (/usr/bin/mint-fortune) in that bash.bashrc file, save and close it, close the current terminal, and open a new one, you'll no longer see fortunes; I just tried it myself and it works.Knowledge wrote:i've tried that and all i get is another blank terminal line....back where i started...so i tried opening it my self and i only get read only permissions and i'm the only user and administrator on my laptop!vincent wrote:Knowledge, have you read the first post in this thread and followed Clem's advice? It's really as simple as that...
help please
vincent wrote:
A blank terminal line? Isn't that what you want though? I mean, you don't want fortunes in your terminal, so when you re-open a terminal, you won't see any more fortunes. As I've said, if you followed those instructions and deleted the last line (/usr/bin/mint-fortune) in that bash.bashrc file, save and close it, close the current terminal, and open a new one, you'll no longer see fortunes; I just tried it myself and it works.
Mikeymouse, delete the last line in /etc/bash.bashrc, the line that says /usr/bin/mint-fortune.
Knowledge, I'm going to quote Clem's post above to make my point clear.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
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gksudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc
GOD I WISH I WASN'T A NOOB! i forgot i uninstalled gedit a couple of days ago....smh haha! so i just replace gedit with gvim and used gvim try and do it...but nope it didn't work i didn't give me the privledges so i guess gedit can do somethings that vim can't do although i like vim more...haha thanks for being patient with my noob-ish-ness haha!vincent wrote:Knowledge, I'm going to quote Clem's post above to make my point clear.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.
ClemIs typing the above command in a terminal all that difficult to do? This will give you the privileges needed to edit the file (that's the purpose of [gk]sudo).Code: Select all
gksudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc
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sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc
thanks but i already did re-installed and did this remove fortune thing already...but thanks thoughvincent wrote:All right...well, if you don't have gedit (you can re-install it, you know), let's use nano instead, which I know works fairly well off the bat.Same thing, only keep in mind that in nano, CTRL + O is to save the file and CTRL + X is to exit nano.Code: Select all
sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc
haha thanks for dealing with my noob-nessvincent wrote:Whew, glad you managed to get it done at last!
i only have ... '/usr/bin/mint-fortune' at the end of the file, do i remove that?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