Comments on: How To Remove the Fortune Message from the Linux Mint Terminal

By: ugh

ugh — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:32:18 +0000

For a single command solution:

# sed -i ‘s|/usr/bin/mint-fortune||’ /etc/bash.bashrc

By: ToTe

ToTe — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:50:07 +0000

Oh, man. You save my brain.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:53:54 +0000

Oh thank you!!!!

How annoying “cute” is when I’m trying to work.

Bill

By: Stephan

Stephan — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:44:19 +0000

I removed it in Mint 9 completely with sudo apt-get remove fortune. Some artwork gets removed as well, but Mint Menu works fine after reboot. Editing bash.bashrc remains vital in order to avoid the error message.

(I know it’s been a while since this has been posted but this thread is ATTOW still number one hit in Google if you search for the error message)

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:37:38 +0000

I know it’s been a while since this was posted but I thought I would share anyway
I found this method works without losing mint menu
http://techpad.co.uk/content.php?sid=80

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:59:14 +0000

@Coach – Yes its safe, you’ll just end up losing your Mint menu from the sounds of it. You can easily add the normal Gnome menu though. When I get some time I’ll have to research an alternate option that doesnt force you to sacrifice your Mint menu.

By: Coach

Coach — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:36:57 +0000

Is it safe to remove them? I personally don’t like them so much, so I would like to remove it.
Cheers,

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:50:56 +0000

@xtb – That would explain why my Mint Menu’s keep dying. Personally I don’t like their menu so I just readded the default Gnome one, but thank you for pointing out that they are connected. I will look into this matter more.

By: xtb

xtb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:06:07 +0000

Removing fortune also triggers removal of mint menu…