On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Keith Wright wrote: KW> Though I have been running Linux almost exclusively for more KW> than six years, but I have never heard of 'noseguy' and have KW> no idea what it is supposed to do. Where did you get it KW> and why do you want it? I remember having noseguy as a screensaver option back at WPI, on the garden lab terminals and the CCC ("Buckaroo Bonzai") lab DECstations, and that would've been around 1995 or so... IIRC, it's a black background, with a white (green?) little cartoon character that's basically a big nose with little feet. The little noseguy walks a little bit across the screen, stops, and a little ponder bubble appears above his "head" that displays something from the fortune file. The xscreensaver package that includes noseguy is available here: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ A "screenshot" of noseguy is available here: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots.html According to this page, the noseguy for xscreensaver was extracted out of xnlock . According to: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#fortune <quote> Where does the text for those silly quotes come from? Some of the xscreensaver display modes (phosphor, noseguy, etc.) run another program to generate text, which is then displayed in some fancy way. Usually that program is fortune (generally found at /usr/games/fortune.) To change which program a specific xscreensaver hack runs to generate text, put something like this in your ``~/.Xdefaults'' file: phosphor.program: /usr/games/fortune See the man page for fortune for how to customize the text that it generates. </quote> So, my guess is that the original question was really how to customize the text that fortune spits out... -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv@kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/