The alternative to the "display-dhammapada" application is the "Dhammapada Fortune." It is a collection of Buddhist sayings and is available in CLI (Command Line Interface) and GUI (Graphical User Interface) modes. It supports the Gnome and KDE desktop environments.
The "Dhammapada Fortune" application utilizes the "fortune-mod" program to provide its functionality. It retrieves Dhammapada data from SuttaCentral.net, a popular online resource for Buddhist texts.
The application offers translations in 19 different languages and includes 25 translation cookies. The supported languages are Catalan, Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Marathi, Burmese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Singhalese, Slovenian, and Tamil.
- Zenity
- Notify
- Kdialog
- Kdialog Popup
1. ca Catalan
2. cs Czech
3. nl Dutch
4. en English
5. fr French
6. de German
7. he Hebrew
8. hu Hungarian
9. it Italian
10. ja Japanese
11. mr Marathi
12. my Myanmar
13. no Norwegian
14. pl Polish
15. pt Portuguese
16. si Singhalese
17. sl Slovenian
18. es Spanish
19. ta Tamil
Usage: fortune-dhp [-h] [ -l CC | CC_AUTHOR ]
[ -r search-content | ID ] [ -b z | n | k | p |a ]
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-h, --help Print this Help Infomation.
-l, --language Use language code
CC | CC_AUTHOR
-r, --regex Search pattern and number
-b, --box Use Gui
z - with Zenity
n - with Notify Popup
k - with Kdialog
p - with Kdialog Popup
a - with Auto Detect
-a - same with -b a
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LANGUAGE CC CC_AUTHOR
ca Catalan
ca_jambudipa
ca_durall
cs Czech
nl Dutch
nl_dubois
nl_loosbroek
en English
en_anandajoti
en_buddharakkhita
en_feldmeier
fr French
de German
he Hebrew
hu Hungarian
it Italian
ja Japanese
mr Marathi
my Myanmar
no Norwegian
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
pl_becker
pt_beisert
pt_guimaraes
si Singhalese
sl Slovenian
es Spanish
ta Tamil
[ ] C
[ ] Go
[ ] Python
[x] Bash
[x] Linux
[ ] Windows
[ ] Mac
[ ] Android
[ ] iOS