Corebird, a native GTK3 Twitter client, has reached 1.2.1 release with some fixes. Here are the changes according to its release page:

• Fix a11y labelling of several switches in the settings dialog
• Fix an input window clipping bug in the tweet info page
• Fix a few cases of overlapping widgets into window borders
• Remove the “Save as” context menu from inline media. This has not been working in a while but the context menu was still there.
• Rename the .sidebar style class to .topbar. This was used in corebird before gtk+ used it, but now that the sidebar is at the top, the .sidebar style from gtk+ themes collides with the horizontal alignment we use, so use the more fitting ‘.topbar’.
• Show a focus outline in the topbar again. We are setting a custom background color here, so we also need to set a fitting outline color.
• Fix a coloring but in the topbar, where wildcard selectors in themes would overrde our foreground color.

How to Install Corebird 1.2.1:

While the 16.04 universe repository provides the old Corebird 1.1 release, you can upgrade to version 1.2.1 via third-party PPA since there’s no official Linux installer.

Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one to add PPA and install corebird:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/corebird

sudo apt update

sudo apt install corebird

For those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the .deb installer from the link below:

Download Corebird (third-party .deb)

Select download:

• corebird_1.2.1-1~ubuntu16.04_amd64.deb for 64bit 16.04
• corebird_1.2.1-1~ubuntu16.04_i386.deb for 32bit 16.04

Then click install via Ubuntu Software, or by running command in terminal:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/PACKAGE_NAME; sudo apt-get -f install

Corebird, an open source twitter client for Linux, just got a new release after almost half a year of development.

The new Corebird 1.2 brings some UI changes, improvements to HiDPI displays, and more. See the full changelog:

• Inline media and avatars are no longer cached on disk
• Videos now indicate download progress showing a preview thumbnail with a circular progress overlay
• We download higher-resolution avatars on HiDPI displays now
• The build system usage has seen a major refactoring an cleanup, thanks to Rico Tzschichholz
• The sidebar is now at the top and dark
• Favorites now us a heart icon
• Sending tweets is now cancellable (e.g. when multiple images are attached, in which case it might take a while)
• Inline media are now displayed “full-size”, scaled to the current window size.
• Instagram videos are now correctly marked as videos, instead of was images
• If you have GTK+ >= 3.19, there’s now a GtkShortcutsWindow accessible from the app menuexplaining the various keyboard shortcuts. Note that Corebird still compiles and runs with GTK+ 3.16
• The big “add media” button in the compose window has been replaced with a regular text button. The added images are scaled down and displayed below it
• You can quote your own tweets now
• The settings dialog now contains a setting to hide “inappropriate content”, and it is enabled by default.
• The file selection dialog in the compose window now keeps you from selecting files > 3MB.

How to Install Corebird 1.2 in Ubuntu:

There’s no official Corebird binary packages. Unofficial builds are available in PPA for Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04. Since it requires GTK+ 3.16, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is not supported.

1. Launch terminal from App Launcher or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, paste below command and hit run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/corebird

Type in password (no visual feedback when typing) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.

2. Then refresh your system cache and install the software:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install corebird

For those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the .deb package (select i386 for 32bit, amd64 for 64bit) from THIS PAGE, and click install via Software Center.

Corebird, a native Gtk+ Twitter client for Linux desktop, gets a new release recently though there’s even not a release note.

Corebird 1.0.1 was released silently without a release note and even changelog file in its source tarball. The only change I can tell is that it now provides minimize, maximize, and close at top-left corner in Ubuntu 15.04 both Unity and Gnome Shell.

For Elementary OS Freya, the global menu (gear button) has been merged into header bar.

Install Corebird 1.0.1 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 15.04 user, open terminal from the Dash, Launcher, or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run below commands one by one to get it from PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/corebird 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install corebird

For Elementary OS Freya and those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the .deb installer from launchpad page.

UPDATE: Ubuntu 14.04 is not supported! If you REALLY want this app, first add Gnome Testing PPA (USING THE PPA COULD BREAK YOUR SYSTEM OR MAKE IT UNSTABLE!) and update your system cache, finally install the .deb from the previous link.

Corebird, Linux native GTK+ 3 twitter client has reached version 0.9 with great perfermance improvements. PPA’s ready for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Linux Mint 17.

What’s new in Cordbird 0.9:

• Mentions, hashtags and links now get highlighted directly in the compose window
• You can now click the avatar to edit and change the user account.
• You can now toggle the “autostart” switch in each user account’s settings window.
• The setting regarding the dark theme is gone (existing configurations will keep working).
• When viewing an image of a tweet with multiple images/videos attached, you can now use the cursor keys to navigate between them.
• Avatars in tweets and profiles now show if the user is verified.
• Lots of the application should now react better to missing network connections.
• Some things now get immediately applied instead of needing a restart
• Add a back button in the top of window.
• UI improvements.

For more, see the release page (Click the suspension points after the version number to view changes).

Install Corebird in Ubuntu:

While there’s no binary packages available for Ubuntu, I’ve made the latest Corebird into my PPA repository, available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.10, and Linux Mint 17.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging && sudo apt-get update

To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/corebird

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install corebird

If you don’t want to add the PPA, grab the .deb installer directly from this page.

As a workaround to fix the background transparency bug, I’ve edited the .desktop file so that Corebird window uses the old fat scroll bars instead of the overlay scroll bars.

(Optional) To remove Corebird:

To remove the twitter client as well as the PPA repository:

sudo apt-get remove corebird

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/corebird

If you’ve added the Gnome 3 PPA, install ppa-purge from Ubuntu Software Center. Then purge the PPAs via commands below:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging