twitter client for X

Overview

Xtwitter is very tiny twitter client for X Window System.

It'll works on Linux, and other UNIX-like operating systems, maybe.

Screenshot

Supported multibyte charactor

Supported libnotify(use --enable-libnotify configure option)

Dependencies

• X.org
• Imlib2
• libcurl
• libxml 2.0
• glib 2.0
• liboauth
debian package is here.
• liboauth0_0.9.1-2_i386.deb
• liboauth-dev_0.9.1-2_i386.deb
• libnotify(optional)

Download

This program can be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. See the file COPYING.

Latest Source: xtwitter-0.10.5.tar.gz

Old Version: xtwitter-0.10.4.tar.gz

Debian package: xtwitter_0.10.5_i386.deb

archlinux: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22092

Source repository: http://github.com/hamano/xtwitter

Build

Install required packages(for debian)

      # apt-get install libxml2-dev libnotify-dev
    

      % ./configure
      # If you want to use libnotify.
      % ./configure --enable-libnotify
      % make
      % make install
    

Configration

      % mkdir ~/.xtwitter
      % cat > ~/.xtwitter/config
      user=testuser
      pass=xxxxxxxx
      ^D
    

Usage

      # reading timeline
      % xtwitter

      # update status
      % xtwitter -u "message"

      # update by standard input
      % echo "message" | xtwitter -u -

    

Author

Tsukasa Hamano (http://twitter.com/hamano)