Gwibber leaves ghost processes behind [closed]

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center. Closed 9 years … Read more

Gwibber Problems

I have configured my facebook account in Gwibber since I installed Ubuntu 12.10. Until a few days I started to notice that the program does not refresh and display notifications, when opened gwibber interface goes blank and not updated. I read in forums that could be the proxy settings or interfering with its operation but … Read more

List of Twitter clients that support Oauth? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Closed 11 years ago. Possible Duplicate: GUI Twitter clients: what are my options? Can we get a list of Twitter clients that support Oauth going? Gnome: Gwibber KDE: Choqok source >= beta 3 has oauth Air: TweetDeck Twhirl Answer If you don’t insist on using free software – twhirl … Read more

Why does gwibber-service-facebook/twitter updates when I have uninstalled Gwibber?

I uninstalled Gwibber, the social networking tool as soon as I made a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04. However in recent updates (via apt-get update/upgrade commands), gwibber-service-twitter and gwibber-service-facebook have been updated. Why did this happen? Why didn’t the Gwibber related packages not removed when Gwibber was uninstalled? Are these components still being used by … Read more

Why does Gwibber keep asking to authorize my Facebook account, but doesn’t add the account after authorizing?

I’m using Gwibber 3.4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04. I successfully authorized the account with Gwibber, but Gwibber doesn’t add my Facebook Account to the broadcasting account list. What’s up with Gwibber? Answer This is a known bug. There’s a workaround, though. Be careful replacing code and good luck! AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Naveen … Read more

How can I fix “dpkg: error: parsing file”?

I am very new to Linux, and am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. All updates are failing with installArchives() failed: dpkg: error: parsing file ‘/var/lib/dpkg/available’ near line 2 package ‘libgwibber-gtk2′: value for `status’ field not allowed in this context Error in function: How can I fix this problem? Answer How to reset the dpkg available status … Read more

Can’t run desktop python applications when switching out the default Python version

I work on Google Appengine which requires Python 2.5. We all know that Python 2.5 is not supported by latest release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu programs such as Software Center and Gwibber are highly dependent on Python 2.7 as I have changed by default version of Python to Python 2.5 (I ve created a symbolic link … Read more

Why isn’t Gwibber working? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Ask Ubuntu. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question (I thought I posted this earlier, but it’s not here, so I guess I didn’t.) So, Gwibber isn’t working. It as kind of … Read more