How to get Facebook, Identica and Twitter messeages in Conky

mcielen · 2009-08-31 21:45:27

I have recently released version 0.1 of Cwibber.
Cwibber is an easy to use command line interface to Gwibber, which makes it easy to get (currently) Identica, Twitter and Facebook messages in your Conky.

First of all, add my ppa to your /etc/sources.list:

deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/mcielen/ppa/ubuntu[/url] [version] main 
deb-src [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/mcielen/ppa/ubuntu[/url] [version] main

Ofcourse subsitute [version] with intrepid, jaunty or karmic. Then add the PGP key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0DA7F92B

Since Cwibber depends on Gwibber >= 2.0, add the Gwibber ppa:

deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu[/url] [version] main 
deb-src [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu[/url] [version] main

Again subsitute [version] with intrepid, jaunty or karmic. Add the PGP key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 72D340A3

And, as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Now you're ready to install Cwibber:

sudo apt-get install cwibber

Since Cwibber depends on Gwibber, it'll be installed too.

To use Cwibber 0.1, you'll have to run Gwibber to create the accounts you want to use, and run Gwibber once to start the Gwibber Daemon (this will be changed in Cwibber v0.2). Now call Cwibber from your .conkyrc:

${execi 60 cwibber}

TODO for Cwibber 0.2:

- check whether Gwibber daemon is running, if not start it. For this I depend on the Gwibber developers, since refresh intervals will have to be stored in gconf. Developers promised this will be changed soon. (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/417903)

- allow management of accounts through cwibber instead of through Gwibber

TODO for later versions:

- I'm hoping to convince Gwibber developers to split GUI and Daemon. If this won't happen, I might pack the gwibber daemon with Cwibber. (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/421285)

Call for developers and testers

Test this app, and open an LP bug for any problem you find or features you want to see in next versions.

Since I'm far from a developer myself, I need help for this project. Interested in developing? Contact me through this forum or mail.

corenominal · 2009-09-02 01:12:42

I have not tested this yet, but it looks like an interesting project. I am especially interested to know how the Gwibber developers respond to your request to split the daemon and GUI. Good luck with it, hopefully I will find some time to test it out soon. smile

ElbertF · 2009-09-18 03:14:50

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corenominal · 2009-09-18 22:45:55

^ nice tip, thank you for sharing. smile

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#1 2009-08-31 21:45:27

How to get Facebook, Identica and Twitter messeages in Conky

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#3 2009-09-18 03:14:50

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