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12/09/11

Running the new Tweetdeck 1.0 on Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Mint)

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Twitter, who bought Tweetdeck in May of 2011 for more then $40 million, is undergoing a lot of changes. Yesterday they launched the new Tweetdeck 1.0. Finally it get’s out of its everlasting beta status. I’ll have to be honest. I really can’t make up my mind about whether or not I like this new direction Twitter is taking. I guess time will tell. (I’ll probably will do another blog post about it in the near future.)

I really use Tweetdeck a lot. It’s easy, fast, feature complete. Since I’m a Linux user, it’s kinda hard to find something for my platform that could replace Tweetdeck. But hey, no problem, Tweetdeck uses Adobe’s AIR platform… right? First of all, in case you’ve missed it, Adobe discontinued the development of Adobe AIR on Linux. While AIR for Linux wasn’t the best piece of software, it surely could run Tweetdeck without problems. But that’s not all, with Tweetdeck 1.0, Twitter also ditched Adobe AIR as it’s runtime platform. Tweetdeck has become a native running application, available for Chrome, Windows and MacOS….. Wait what?! No more Linux?! No more Linux! It’s a goner… :(

Now what? The solution is actually really simple: The Windows version actually runs fine in Wine :) I’ve played around with it a bit and really, I didn’t find anything that was broken or not running smooth. So open your Ubuntu/Mint software center, install Wine (if you haven’t done it already), download Tweetdeck for Windows, install it and GO, GO, GO!

Tweetdeck 1.0 running fine under Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) using Wine

Tweetdeck 1.0 running fine under Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) using Wine

If you really hate Wine or, for whatever reason, really are looking for a native Linux solution that is a bit Tweetdeck a like, then I would recommend you to look at the Turpial Twitter client.

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6 Comments

  1. Will says:
    December 9, 2011 at 19:37

    Another option is simply installing the Tweetdeck app available for Chrome and using Tweetdeck that way on Linux. I have done that for some time now.

    Reply
    • frenck says:
      December 10, 2011 at 14:44

      @Will Of course you could use the HTML5 version (Chrome). Personally, I like to have a program running. I’ve got more then enough tabs in my browser open all the time :S

      Reply
  2. alexey_laa says:
    December 10, 2011 at 12:11

    This works on my Ubuntu, but configuration (columns, colors) doesn’t restore when I login with my TweetDeck account. Do you know, where to place my td_26_xxxxxxxxxx.db file to accept my configuration?

    Notifying sounds are distorted, sound device for Wine should be configured, maybe.

    Reply
    • frenck says:
      December 10, 2011 at 14:48

      Maybe you could try to start Tweetdeck via Wine via padsp.

      Start wincfg through padsp:

      padsp winecfg

      Then go to Audio, find the OSS driver and select that (and unselect anything else selected), hit OK, etc.

      Now start Tweetdeck this way:

      padsp wine “C:\Program Files\Path\To\Tweetdeck.exe”

      Maybe this could help?

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      • alexey_laa says:
        December 10, 2011 at 16:22

        I tried to configure Wine (padsp winecfg), but found no audio drivers on the “Audio” tab. Wine uses the ALSA device only since v1.3.25, my version is 1.3.28.

        The new TweetDeck hangs sometimes. Wine is unstable on my PC, I’ve tried a few apps. So, I’ll use my previous TweetDeck for the present.

        Thanks.

        Reply
  3. babystrangeloop says:
    December 10, 2011 at 17:09

    Have you seen the new tweetdeck? It’s awful. Even on my Mac running OS X I’m still sticking with the old tweetdeck.

    Reply

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