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Fortunoid is a Plasma Widget that serves as a frontend GUI for the [http://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune fortune] package.

Installing the Fortunoid widget package by
 sudo apt-get install plasma-widget-fortunoid

will also install the fortune package. If only the fortune package is desired (which can be run in a command-line terminal), it can be installed by itself:
 sudo apt-get install fortune

The fortune module can be customized.

*The quotations themselves are stored in the /usr/share/games/fortunes folders.

*There are multiple categories of quotations, and the file for each category can be edited directly.

*When using the command-line, categories of quotations can be selected merely by specifying them. Example:
 fortune ''zippy'' ''science''

*There are many options for the command-line fortune utility (see [http://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune here]). Any or all of these command-line options can be entered as an argument in the Fortunoid widget.

== Adding categories of fortunes (fortune modules) ==
* See [http://fortunes.pbworks.com/ this list] of the original fortune modules (categories).
* Other modules can often be found by a Google search for ''fortune-mod''.
* [http://en.wikiquote.org Wikiquotes] is an online repository for quotations. A webpage can easily be copied to a text file, for conversion into a fortune data file (see below). An example page is [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zen_proverbs Wikiquotes -- Zen proverbs].
* See [http://www.jason.mock.ws/wordpress/2007/07/10/creating-fortune-files this brief tutorial].

* Make sure fortune-mod is installed:
 sudo apt-get install fortune-mod

*Change to the fortune directory:
 cd /usr/share/games/fortunes

*Edit a category text file with quotations separated by % symbols:
 I reject your reality and substitute my own...
 %
 This is one of those "What the hell am I doing?" moments, over!
 %
 We got a robot in the water, he's stuffed with tuna and it's just another day here at Mythbusters.

For example, save this text file as ''newcategory1''.

*There is also a UTF-8 file which is merely a symbolic link to the text file:
 sudo ln -s ''newcategory1'' ''newcategory1.u8''

*Convert the text file into a data file for use by fortune.
 sudo strfile ''newcategory1'' ''newcategory1.dat''

*Select ''newcategory1'' as a command-line option or as an argument in Fortunoid.