{"id":32730,"date":"2020-09-08T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=32730"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:39:38","slug":"twitter-app-cawbird-1-2-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/twitter-app-cawbird-1-2-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"GTK+ Twitter App Cawbird 1.2.0 Released (PPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cawbird-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9581\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cawbird, an open-source fork of Corebird Twitter client, released version 1.2.0 a few days ago with many improvements and bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/IBBoard\/cawbird\/releases\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cawbird 1.2.0<\/a> release highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolved major accessibility issue with timelines.<\/li>\n<li>Added ability to add and read descriptions on images<\/li>\n<li>App window can be reduced to a narrower width and has a &#8220;responsive&#8221; layout for tweets<\/li>\n<li>Improved thumbnail and image loading to reduce resource usage.<\/li>\n<li>Image gallery loop back.<\/li>\n<li>Made &#8220;Replying to&#8221; on Tweet info page list all users.<\/li>\n<li>Reworked @-mention completion so it works with multilingual text.<\/li>\n<li>And various bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cawbird-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32731\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Cawbird 1.2.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The software developer maintains <b>Ubuntu 20.04<\/b>, <b>Ubuntu 18.04<\/b>, as well as other Linux packages via the repository at the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/software.opensuse.org\/\/download.html?project=home%3AIBBoard%3Acawbird&#038;package=cawbird' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download Cawbird<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Select <b>Ubuntu<\/b>, then click &#8216;<b>Grab binary packages directly<\/b>&#8216; and download the <code>.deb<\/code> package for your system.<\/p>\n<p>Finally install the .deb via Gdebi package installer (<i>available in Ubuntu Software<\/i>) and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>You can also add the repository<\/b> to receive future updates via <i>Software Updater<\/i> (<i>Update Manager<\/i>), by running following commands one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">echo 'deb http:\/\/download.opensuse.org\/repositories\/home:\/IBBoard:\/cawbird\/<b>xUbuntu_20.04<\/b>\/ \/' | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/home:IBBoard:cawbird.list\r\n\r\ncurl -fsSL https:\/\/download.opensuse.org\/repositories\/home:IBBoard:cawbird\/<b>xUbuntu_20.04<\/b>\/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/trusted.gpg.d\/home:IBBoard:cawbird.gpg > \/dev\/null\r\n\r\nsudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install cawbird<\/pre>\n<p>For Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x, replace <code>xUbuntu_20.04<\/code> in the commands with <code>xUbuntu_18.04<\/code>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cawbird, an open-source fork of Corebird Twitter client, released version 1.2.0 a few days ago with many improvements and bug-fixes. 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