Gwibber Identi.ca

[Fab]

Are you running 0.8 in Docky mode?

Do you think I am making this up? https://bugs.launchpad.net/do-plugins/+bug/317674

[ben2talk]

Are you running 0.8 in Docky mode?

Do you think I am making this up? https://bugs.launchpad.net/do-plugins/+bug/317674

Yes, you're definitely making it all up Fab that's exactly what I said. It's also not quite covered by that particular bug - you don't even need to run Gwibber to use the plugin for Gnome-Do. but it might not like you to use docky - and the bug is 'bubbles continue to show after disabling the plugin' which means basically it works, but needs killing...

I'm finding that Gnome-do sends messages and shows notification bubbles without any bugs - however, Gwibber can be a little buggy (freezing when I click to reply, or sometimes just not sending messages and then I find it froze...)

I do, however, find that DOCKY MODE is a big problem - maybe it doesn't like compositing, but it's nasty on my system. You're running Openbox if I remember, so maybe it's running smoother on there.

[Fab]

Docky runs great with compiz too. And as for not being able to turn the bubbles off, that seems to be a pretty big bug to me. Especially since I find notification bubbles every 20 secs very annoying!

As for Gwibber, that freezes every few seconds for me no matter what I do. It is really quite buggy as well...

[timttmy]

To hell with your gui's
I use identibash it was written by Linc off of TLLTS.
And it just works. Unlike gwibber on arch linux which is very broken.

[ben2talk]

To hell with your gui's
I use identibash it was written by Linc off of TLLTS.
And it just works. Unlike gwibber on arch linux which is very broken.

Sure, I'm thinking of selling my monitor and using my telephone as a text only interface - more pain more gain eh wOt?

[Fab]

To hell with your gui's
I use identibash it was written by Linc off of TLLTS.
And it just works. Unlike gwibber on arch linux which is very broken.

Wow! This identibash thing is very cool! Thanks!

[ben2talk]

Hmmmm ok [sheepishly] Any advice how to get it going? [/unsheepishly]

It seems that a more direct approach is sensible right now - everything else is a little bit on and off... Today Gnome-Do failed to post a few times, and I have to restart Gwibber every time I do a reply there!

[timttmy]

I knew you'd come around in the end ben
* 1 Just save the following as a text file called identibash (remember to change user= to your username and pass= to your password)

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    #!/bin/bash
    # Lincs script with some of the search fields changed so they work with identi.ca/user/all/rss
    # because the identi.ca rss feed uses different/broken XML
    #
    # Based in part on article found at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-friendfeed/index.html
    #
    # Just replace with your username and password
    #
    maxitems=7
    user=username
    pass=password
    puburl="http://identi.ca/${user}/all/rss"
    posturl="http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml"

    function readpub()
       {
       clear
       curl -s $puburl > /tmp/tweet.tmp
       count=0
       echo "-------------------------------------------"
       while read line
          do
          if $(echo "${line}" | grep -q "title>")
             then
          echo "${line}" | sed 's/<title>//g' | sed 's/<\/title>//g'
          fi

          if $(echo "${line}" | grep -q "dc:date>")
             then
          echo -n "${line}" | sed 's/<dc:date>/  @ /g' | sed 's/<\/dc:date>//g'
          fi

          if $(echo "${line}" | grep -q "dc:creator>")
             then
          echo "${line}" | sed 's/<dc:creator>/ By: /g' | sed 's/<\/dc:creator>//g'
          fi

          if $(echo "${line}" | grep -q "</cc:licence>")
             then
             echo "-------------------------------------------"
             count=$((count + 1))
             if [ $count -eq $maxitems ]
                then
                break
             fi
          fi
          done < /tmp/tweet.tmp
       }

    function postmsg()
       {
       curl -s -u ${user}:${pass} -d status="$msg" --data source="Identibash" ${posturl} 2>&1>/dev/null
       }


    getopts "rp:" flag
    case "${flag}" in
       r) readpub ;;
       p) msg=${OPTARG}; postmsg; readpub ;;
    esac


* 2 make the file executable. Open a terminal cd to the folder you saved identibash and type

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chmod +x identibash

* 3 you can run identibash from there by running
./identibash -r
to recieve
or ./identibash -p ' your text here'
to post
* 4 or you could copy identibash to /usr/local/bin/ and then you don't have to prefix it with ./ every time you use it.

Once you have got it up and running it's pretty cool. Fab has set up bash aliases for sending and recieving. I have two icons on my desktop one for recieving and the second one calls a differnt script (based on identibash) which opens a new terminal window and reads my input and posts it (very basic). So everything is semi gui.

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if you want you can have the other script as well.

[hanna]

^Thanks for that

[ben2talk]

I'll pay you $2 cash for a screenshot from a nice looking desktop

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