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3. Using KFortune

3.1 Reading fortunes

KFortune displays a short message, called a 'fortune', on screen. The purpose of this message is to amuse the reader, nothing more, nothing less.

You can read another fortune by clicking on the button "New fortune" and leave the program by clicking the button "Quit".

The options from the menubar allow you to customize KFortune's behaviour. For more details read the section The Menu Entries.

You can drag a fortune to another program (for example kfm or kedit) by clicking with the mouse and dragging.

3.2 Saving fortunes

There are several ways to save a fortune. One way is to select the option 'Save fortune' from the File-menu. You can also drag the fortune to another program that can handle Drag&Drop items of type DndText. The last option is pressing CTRL-C to copy the current fortune to the systems clipboard.

3.3 Features

The current features of KFortune :

3.4 The fortune database

KFortune gets it's fortunes from various files in the directory $KDEDIR/share/apps/kfortune. The files there contain the fortunes used by KFortune. You can choose from which of these files fortunes are chosen by cliking on the menu entry "Configure database".

3.5 The Menu Entries

3.5.1 File

New fortune : Shows a new fortune

Save fortune : Saves the current fortune to a file

Copy fortune to clipboard: Copies the current fortune to the system clipboard

Quit : Quit the program

3.5.2 Options

Configure keys : Allows you to configure you're own keybindings

Configure font : Allows you to select you're own font for displaying the fortunes

Configure database : Allows you to select from which files fortunes are picked

Misc options : Allows you to configure KFortune's behaviour

3.5.3 Help

About : Shows information about KFortune

Help : Display's online help

3.6 Keybindings

KFortune has keybindigs for several functions. To view these keybindindgs and to create your own keys, choose the option 'Configure keys' from the Options-menu.

The keys used for these functions are the standard keys, configured by Kde. You can configure these keybindigs with the option "Configure keys" from the menu "Options".

3.7 Command line options

You can start KFortune with several command line options. KFortune can handle all standard options for Kde programs, and some options special to KFortune. The options can be used by starting Kfortune with :

kfortune options

The options currently available are (besides the standard options) :


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