DRIVEL(1)						      General Commands Manual							 DRIVEL(1)

NAME

       drivel -- A journal client for the GNOME desktop

SYNOPSIS

       drivel [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the drivel command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       Drivel is a LiveJournal.com client for the GNOME desktop.

       It supports all livejournal-type servers which use standard protocol (as documented at http://www.livejournal.com/developer/protocol.bml)

       See http://www.livejournal.com/ for more information on what LiveJournal is and how to get a free account.

       Drivel  allows  you to perform most functions that are supported by the server (posting, friends editing, friend groups, friend page check-
       ing, post editing etc).

       It is designed to utilize the new features of GNOME 2.0 including GConf and GTK 2.0.

Serendipity configuration
       The server address you need for a serendipity	 installation is of the form:

       http://yourserver/serendipity/serendipity_xmlrpc.php

       Use the standard username and password details that you would use on the admin interface:

       http://yourserver/serendipity/serendipity_admin.php

MovableType configuration
       It appears that movabletype has different password authentication for admin and what movable type calls web services  like  drivel      and
       other blogging clients.

       The  same user will need a different password on the two interfaces. Go to the admin interface of your movable-type installation and select
       "blog preferences" and then select "Users" from the "Manage" menu. Click on the user you want to use via drivel (or other blogging  client)
       and  scroll down. Click on Reveal to see the Web Services Password. An alert box is raised with your current web services password for that
       user. The main password only appears to work for the movable-type administration interface.

Other clients
       It is difficult to test with all blogging services, so if there are other blogging services supported by drivel but which need  changes	to
       the  login  URL	or specialised knowledge of user passwords etc., file a wishlist bug against drivel in Debian with the relevant details so
       that this section of the manpage can be updated.

       (Details of wordpress changes are already documented in the drivel manual - in time, sections from the manpage will be  included  into  the
       drivel manual.)

Music
       drivel  only supports querying the music being played when logged into a livejournal	blog. The old IDL/CORBA interface has been removed
       from rhythmbox and drivel now uses DBUS to query rhythmbox     for livejournal blogs only.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below. Standard gtk/gnome options may also be used.

       -h	    --help
		 Show summary of options.

       -v	    --version
		 Show version of program.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	originally  written  by  Neil  McGovern  <maulkin@halon.org.uk>  and  is  now  maintained  by Neil Williams <code-
       help@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this  document
       under  the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
       Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

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