Gwibber is a tool that allows you to use social networking on Linux, in a very nice looking interface. Gwibber on Jaunty supports: Ping.fm, RSS feeds, Flickr, Facebook, Jaiku, Laconi.ca, Twitter, Digg, Pidgin and Identi.ca out of the box. I am using it for my twitter and Identi.ca accounts, and it works great.
Installation
To install gwibber, you can use the Synaptic Package Manager, or just open a terminal and run ‘sudo apt-get install gwibber’.
Run it
Once you install it, it will be under the Internet tab of your menu.
Setup your accounts
From here you can add the accounts you want to use. In this example I setup a twitter and an identi.ca accounts. One thing I have here is that both are set to receive, but for send I only have identi.ca marked. So when I type in the input box, it only sends to identi.ca. I then have identi.ca send it to twitter.
Gwibber in action
Once everything is set up, it will look something like this. Have fun, you can adjust the color of each service to see what is coming from where also.
Jaunty Notifications
And every time someone twitters / identi.ca’s whatever, the new Jaunty notifications pop up and look fantastic.
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#1 by ethana2 on March 24, 2009 - 12:12 pm
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Or, if you have sane bash aliases and have given your .bashrc to root,
$ install gwibber
Other than all that sudo apt-get nonsense, I must say your jaunty install looks very attractive with the Dust theme
I look forward very much to installing it on my laptop later this week.
#2 by Dom on March 24, 2009 - 6:34 pm
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Thanks for the Gwibber publicity!
#3 by OliverNZ on March 24, 2009 - 7:51 pm
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Gwibber has a big drawback though that I’m still searching a solution for. It doesn’t work through proxies. That probably shuts out all the people that have Ubuntu at work.
Otherwise a nice proggie.
#4 by Éric Noël on March 24, 2009 - 8:47 pm
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Hi,
I installed gwibber few days ago on my Jaunty. Working great. Do you have an idea how change de default language? I would like toswitch it to french.
Any ideas?
Thanks
#5 by Jason Crane on March 24, 2009 - 10:52 pm
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I use Gwibber in Intrepid and like it very much. Not a particularly interesting comment, but that’s all I’ve got.
Jason
#6 by Dom on March 25, 2009 - 5:33 am
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@OliverNZ: click the (change) button on ‘this bug doesn’t effect me’ to register your requirement https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/259830
@Éric Noël: Gwibber just displays the language you currently have your Ubuntu session set to, echo $LANG in a terminal to see (e.g., en_GB.UTF-8). If you want to run Gwibber in something different then you can write a quick shell script wrapper to export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 before launching Gwibber. You’ll also probably need to install language-support-fr and language-pack-fr if you haven’t already.
#7 by Éric Noël on March 25, 2009 - 1:51 pm
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@Dom Thanks alot.
echo $LANG give me fr_CA.UTF-8
language-support-fr and language-pack-fr are already installed.
all other gnome app are in french.
Maybe a bug ?
#8 by Dom on March 26, 2009 - 4:48 am
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sounds like it, if you’d like to raise one on http://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+filebug then I or someone else will take a look