Fortune Status for Pidgin IM

If you want to change status message of Pidgin Message by
fortune message. Just create a file pidgin_status_message.py
And copy the following lines.

#----------------------------

#!/usr/bin/env python
import dbus,subprocess,time

def set_status(message):
  bus = dbus.SessionBus()
  obj = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
  purple = dbus.Interface(obj, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")
  current = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetType(purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent())
  status = purple.PurpleSavedstatusNew("", current)
  purple.PurpleSavedstatusSetMessage(status, message)
  purple.PurpleSavedstatusActivate(status)

while True:
  fortune = subprocess.Popen('fortune', stdout = subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()
  set_status(fortune)
  time.sleep(120)
#-------------------------------

Start Pidgin and give following command:
$ python pidgin_status_message.py &