Comments on: An alternative application of xcowsay http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay Lalalala doo Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nick http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-35500 nick Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:36:56 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-35500 Looks like you’ve stumbled on a limitation of the xcowsayrc config file. There isn’t currently a way to set an option value which contains spaces! You could try –font “ExposureCOneRough 28″ explicitly on the command line or alternatively use the latest version from github where I’ve fixed the problem:

https://github.com/nickg/xcowsay/commit/9e80f4d8efadab27a0f40fff835174825c957c3b

With this you should be able to do

font = “ExposureCOneRough 28″

in the config file as you expected.

]]> By: andy http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-35498 andy Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:06:13 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-35498 Hi! I am a longtime proud user of your fine product (check out your first comment in xcowsay from 2008! at 4 AM in the morning!)

How do I specify a larger font size? I tried “ExposureCOneRough 28″ with quotes; it increased the size but the font defaulted to sans. Without quotes, the font is correct though, but it warned about the token when a newline is expected or something. Should I revert back to regular fonts like sans?

]]> By: Steve Wills’ Weblog » Blog Archive » Twitter Updates for 2010-01-06 http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-1931 Steve Wills’ Weblog » Blog Archive » Twitter Updates for 2010-01-06 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:14:01 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-1931 [...] this one's for you http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/ [...]

]]> By: blodgett http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-1582 blodgett Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:59:40 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-1582 @doik

you comment at 2 4 8
blodgett LIKE it :D
om nom nom

]]> By: doik http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-1552 doik Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:48:29 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-1552 under xmonad on my thinkpad, i bound my ThinkVantage key to xcowsay; simply add:

((0, 0x1008ff41), spawn “xcowfortune”)

to keys in your config.

the results are assuredly delightful.

]]> By: nick http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 nick Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:11:57 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-1360 > why this happen?

Oh no! I’ve been caught out by something I read only last week in “Classic Shell Scripting”: the -e option (means “interpret escape sequences like \n”) is implemented in GNU echo, but usually this is not used as your shell has its own built-in. On Ubuntu and recent Debian /bin/sh is dash rather than bash which doesn’t support -e and just prints it.

Much more portable solution is to use printf, which I will update the script to do.

]]> By: blodgett http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-1359 blodgett Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:13:42 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-1359 blodgett again. on my computorg, the ‘-e’ in the scriptee appear in the cow text; blodgett did delete it and it go away.
why this happen?

]]> By: blodgett http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-1358 blodgett Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:09:24 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-1358 also mustn’t forget to chmod +x otherwise the leetle scriptee does complain :(

]]> By: blodgett http://www.doof.me.uk/2009/10/31/an-alternative-application-of-xcowsay/comment-page-1/#comment-1357 blodgett Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:04:43 +0000 http://www.doof.me.uk/?p=674#comment-1357 this made blodgett laugh all over again :D
do want image option!

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