I’ve finally finished xcowsay 1.1! The big new feature is dream mode — you can display images inside the bubble!
There’s also a new --think flag to make text appear inside a thought bubble as well. Plus there’s some bug fixes and even a Portuguese translation. What are you waiting for?! Get it here.
Also, I’ve changed the theme on the site! Minimalist, eh?
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Hey! Xcowsay is excellent! Could you add an option to force the cow to show up in a particular spot on the screen? On a multi-monitor setup the cow and his words/thoughts seem to spill across monitors quite often.
Thanks again!
September 12, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Yep, I can add that for the next version. I should be able to fix the spilling across multiple monitors problem too. (Unfortunately I don’t have access to a dual-head setup so I didn’t spot this problem!)
Thanks for your interest!
September 12, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Xcowsay doesn’t seem to work on 16bit displays (trying to spice up some embedded linux boards :)
The output:
root@beagleboard:/data/pictures# xcowsay test
(xcowsay:1733): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_gc_set_rgb_fg_color() and gdk_gc_set_rgb_bg_color() can
only be used on GC’s with a colormap. A GC will have a colormap
if it is created for a drawable with a colormap, or if a
colormap has been set explicitly with gdk_gc_set_colormap.
(xcowsay:1733): Gdk-WARNING **: Using Cairo rendering requires the drawable argument to
have a specified colormap. All windows have a colormap,
however, pixmaps only have colormap by default if they
were created with a non-NULL window argument. Otherwise
a colormap must be set on them with gdk_drawable_set_colormap
(xcowsay:1733): Gdk-WARNING **: No colormap in gc_get_foreground
(xcowsay:1733): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkpixbuf-drawable.c:1247: Source drawable has no colormap; either pass in a colormap, or set the colormap on the drawable with gdk_drawable_set_colormap()
(xcowsay:1733): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)’ failed
(xcowsay:1733): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)’ failed
(xcowsay:1733): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_n_channels: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)’ failed
(xcowsay:1733): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_colorspace: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)’ failed
(xcowsay:1733): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_bits_per_sample: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)’ failed
**
ERROR:floating_shape.c:59:get_alpha_mask: assertion failed: (gdk_pixbuf_get_bits_per_sample(shape->pixbuf) == 8)
Aborted
This is with gtk 2.14.1
September 22, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
Hello,
I have created a rpm package for fedora :) It is now on the fedora-10 updates-testing repository !
(You can download sr.rpm and other rpms build here : http://koji.fedoraproject.org:80/koji/buildinfo?buildID=100805)
Thank you for this excellent program :D
May 7, 2009 @ 5:48 pm