I found a small bug that causes some issues, at least when running on armbian and starting up via cron . It might be that ‘stock’ armbian isn’t properly setting up the $PATH as X starts. I tested against rasbian and this issue does not appear, and the ‘fix’ to add the full path to fortune (which really should always be done).
node_helper.js (line 20)
exec(‘fortune -s’, (error, stdout, stderr) => { exec(‘/usr/games/fortune -s’, (error, stdout, stderr) => {