FAQ

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Installing Gwibber

See Gwibber

Problems with Gwibber

Check out the project page at launchpad to register for help with bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/ (example - why can't I send or receive Jaiku messages?)

Theming Gwibber

Current themes are installed in /usr/share/gwibber/UI directory. Personal additions should go to /home/ username /.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes

New themes may be installed here, though precautions should be taken - copy the whole UI directory to UI.bak before playing in here!. It is very easy to make a shortcut somewhere to go back and restore it later.

The simplest method of theming Gwibber is to copy one theme to the .local/share/gwibber/ui/themes directory, and then simply edit and/or replace or insert a file 'bak.png' being an image file to be used for the background.

If you have trouble with Gwibber and themes, run this in terminal to get it started with default theme:

Code: gconftool-2 --type string -s "/apps/gwibber/preferences/theme" "default"

Replies

Association with another tweet/dent

Many users incorrectly assume that clicking on a reply arrow, but then removing the @username should dissociate the post.

This is incorrect. Gwibber's intended behaviour is that you can reference another tweet/dent via the in_reply_to link without requiring the @username entry. This enables you to do thinks like RT and via @username and matches the behaviour of the web interface.

If you wish to remove the association you should click the 'Cancel' button to the right of the input field.

Display Issues

Recently I had complaints from Gwibber users that they cannot use 'tiny-arrow' URL's shrunk using the http://tinyarro.ws/ service. Typical formats might appear like this: www.➡.ws/䑸 which does not always display correctly and may or may not be available as a clickable link - depending upon which application is being used.

Should this occur, simply cut and paste the url into your browser address bar.

Open http://identi.ca/''username'' account in it's own tab

To open a new tab for a specific user, simply use the Middle Mouse button to click on the user's Avatar

Open a new tab and search for '#ubuntu'

In Gwibber, this is a 'Find' function. Press 'ctrl' + 'f' to open a 'find' window, and enter the search term 'ubuntu' and press enter.

About Workspaces

Currently, Gwibber only restores itself to the original workspace - and so minimising to some notification area will not allow restoration on another workspace. You are able to set the window to appear in all workspaces - then the notification icon will always capture and release Gwibber to the current (actually ALL) workspace.

Performance Issues

Occasionally I have experienced issues with freezing when pasting to the text box in Gwibber. Should you experience any difficulties in this area, then initially go to the Gwibber>preferences and disable the Experimental features (currently 'Automatically Shorten Pasted URLs). Performance in this area may be affected by connectivity issues at times.

Preferences are available through the taskbar icon's right click menu. To restart (with information available in the terminal) simply restart from the terminal:

Code: killall gwibber |wait 5 |gwibber

(it is possible to create a launcher for your panel/menu/desktop using this command)