{"id":4252,"date":"2014-11-16T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2014-12-20T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:40:21","slug":"corebird-gtk3-twitter-client-gets-new-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/corebird-gtk3-twitter-client-gets-new-release\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Corebird&#8217; GTK+3 Twitter Client Gets A New Release [Ubuntu PPA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client-icon.png\" alt=\"Corebird  GTK+ 3 Twitter Client\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Corebird, Linux native GTK+ 3 twitter client has reached version 0.9 with great perfermance improvements. PPA&#8217;s ready for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Linux Mint 17.<\/b><\/p>\n<table style=\"border:none;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Corebird Twitter Client in Ubuntu 14.10\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client1-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Corebird Twitter Client in Ubuntu 14.10\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client1-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/corebird-twitter-client1.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in Cordbird 0.9:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mentions, hashtags and links now get highlighted directly in the compose window<\/li>\n<li>You can now click the avatar to edit and change the user account.<\/li>\n<li>You can now toggle the &#8220;autostart&#8221; switch in each user account&#8217;s settings window.<\/li>\n<li>The setting regarding the dark theme is gone (existing configurations will keep working).<\/li>\n<li>When viewing an image of a tweet with multiple images\/videos attached, you can now use the cursor keys to navigate between them.<\/li>\n<li>Avatars in tweets and profiles now show if the user is verified.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of the application should now react better to missing network connections.<\/li>\n<li>Some things now get immediately applied instead of needing a restart<\/li>\n<li>Add a <b>back<\/b> button in the top of window.<\/li>\n<li>UI improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/baedert\/corebird\/releases\" title=\"Corebird on Github\" target=\"_blank\">release page<\/a> (Click the suspension points after the version number to view changes).<\/p>\n<h4>Install Corebird in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>While there&#8217;s no binary packages available for Ubuntu, I&#8217;ve made the latest Corebird into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/corebird\" target=\"_blank\">my PPA repository<\/a>, available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.10, and Linux Mint 17.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-blue\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-info-circle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">Corebird depends on GTK+ &gt;=3.12, so <b>Ubuntu 14.04<\/b> users need to add the Gnome 3 and Gnome 3 staging PPA for the dependencies and that might broken your desktop, do it at your own risk!<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team\/gnome3\n\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team\/gnome3-staging<\/pre>\n<p>Once Corebird is properly installed, remove the Gnome3 Staging PPA via:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none\">sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnome3-team\/gnome3-staging &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>To install it, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/corebird\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install corebird<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/install-corebird-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/install-corebird-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"Install Corebird Twitter Client from PPA\" width=\"580\" height=\"176\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/install-corebird-ppa.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/install-corebird-ppa-300x91.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to add the PPA, grab the .deb installer directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntuhandbook1\/corebird\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/c\/corebird\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a workaround to fix the background transparency bug, I&#8217;ve edited the <b>.desktop<\/b> file so that Corebird window uses the old fat scroll bars instead of the overlay scroll bars.<\/p>\n<p><b>(Optional) To remove Corebird:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the twitter client as well as the PPA repository:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove corebird\n\nsudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/corebird<\/pre>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve added the Gnome 3 PPA, install <code>ppa-purge<\/code> from Ubuntu Software Center. Then purge the PPAs via commands below:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team\/gnome3\n\nsudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team\/gnome3-staging<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corebird, Linux native GTK+ 3 twitter client has reached version 0.9 with great perfermance improvements. PPA&#8217;s ready for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Linux Mint 17. What&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1173,740],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-corebird","tag-twitter-client"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}