yeah I know.. I should have at least tried it.

Charging does not actually stop at 9x percent, in fact it will charge to 100, then let the battery drain to like 95, load again and so on. This is the best possible way to handle the battery for not overcharging it, but still have a (nearly) full battery after unplugging the charger.

I like the idea of changing the color according to the battery. This should be made a config option in the script.

I messed around with the script now for a while to make it autostarting. Didn't find a solution which made me happy though. I started it now with nohup, so I do not have to have an open terminal all the time but still have the quote updated.

Also, I personally would like to see the quote updated at every time ending with a zero... Cant really tell why, but it would be nice. But as that is a bit more work to do (always poll the time? poll the time until the first zero is reached, then "sleep 600"? And what about people who would like to have, like, 7 minutes between quotes??), it is definitely not important.

I find it funny that the normal non-root user is able to mess around with gconf in this system.

Where did you get the quote file from?