Summary

It's a simple GTK+ based application for Linux, designed to interact with Twitter web service.

It's written using Mono/C# and some of GNOME dependant libraries. GUI is inspired by Mac client Twitterrific.

Features

1. Read your friends public timeline
2. Read public timeline
3. Post to twitter
4. Set refresh interval
5. Images from friends timeline are being cached
6. Notification area icon

TODO:

1. History saving
2. Libnotify notification on new posts
3. Direct messages

Download

gTwitter is currently under heavy development. You can try it out by either downloading the latest release from the downloads page.

Or you can check out the latest code from the subversion repository. Note that the code from subversion may break and/or contain bugs.

There is an 0.2.4 .deb package available for Ubuntu here.

Compilation & Installation

You can compile source tarball(.tar.gz) on your Linux system using standard compilation methods:

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

su -c 'make install'

You can then run gtwitter command to start gTwitter.

If you downloaded mono binary(.exe) you need to run it like this:

mono gtwitter.exe

Dependencies

• The latest GNOME development packages (gtk+-2.8)
• A full Mono Development stack (mono 1.1.x, gtk-sharp-2.0, etc.)
• Cairo graphics library (cairo 1.0.x)
• LibSexy GTK+ extended functionality widgets (libsexy 0.1.x)

Goodies

gTwitter 0.1 screencast

Clickable URL test

Clients for non Linux users

If you are not using Linux OS, you can get Twitter client for:

• MacOS: Twitteriffic
• Windows: Twitterlicious