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This is simple, but effective. I just got the idea, because of @MrGeek's terminal thread.
You can make your terminal greet you the right way depending on the daytime plus saying a random quote for your amusal. It might look like this:



Or this:



And this is how you do it:

1. Install cowsay and fortune

If you are on Ubuntu:

Code:

sudo apt-get install cowsay sudo apt-get install fortune-mod

2. Put the following python script into your home

Open a text editor of your choice, copy my code into it and save it as welcome.py

Code:

import getpass from datetime import datetime from subprocess import call, Popen, PIPE user = getpass.getuser() hour = datetime.time(datetime.now()).hour if hour >= 22: str = "Sleep Well, " + user + "!" elif hour >= 18: str = "Good Evening, " + user + "!" elif hour >= 14: str = "Good Afternoon, " + user + "!" elif hour >= 12: str = "Enjoy Your Meal, " + user + "!" else: str = "Good Morning, " + user + "!" fortune = Popen(["fortune"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] call(["cowsay", "-f", "tux", str + "\n\n" + fortune])

3. Edit the .bashrc

Add the following line:

Code:

python welcome.py

Now everytime you open your terminal you get an appropriate greeting.

4. Customizing

If you want another ascii picture than tux, you have to edit the last line of the python code and replace tux with i.e.: dragon, cock, snowman, elephant, milk, cow, pony, kiss, koala, gnu, skeleton, ren, moose, sheep ... (see /usr/share/cowsay/cows for the files available)
I.e. to have the dragon you will have to write:

Code:

call(["cowsay", "-f", "dragon", str + "\n\n" + fortune])

Alternatively you can use the randomized welcome.py (shows a random ascii, if you don't like a picture, add it to the blacklist):

Code:

import getpass import random from datetime import datetime from subprocess import call, Popen, PIPE from os import listdir from os.path import isfile, join blacklist = ["beavis.zen", "ghostbusters", "elephant-in-snake", "unipony", "daemon", "sodomized-sheep", "eyes", "kosh", "calvin", "gnu", "kiss", "turkey", "turtle", "pony", "mutilated", "head-in"] #put your unwanted cows in here cowpath = "/usr/share/cowsay/cows" cows = [ f[:-4] for f in listdir(cowpath) if isfile(join(cowpath,f)) and f.endswith(".cow") and f[:-4] not in blacklist ] user = getpass.getuser() hour = datetime.time(datetime.now()).hour random_cow = random.choice(cows) say_or_think = random.choice(["say", "think"]) if hour >= 22: str = "Sleep Well, " + user + "!" elif hour >= 18: str = "Good Evening, " + user + "!" elif hour >= 14: str = "Good Afternoon, " + user + "!" elif hour >= 12: str = "Enjoy Your Meal, " + user + "!" else: str = "Good Morning, " + user + "!" fortune = Popen(["fortune"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] call(["cow" + say_or_think, "-f", random_cow, str + "\n\n" + fortune])