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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logjam(1) LiveJournal logjam(1)NAME
logjam - GTK+ client for LiveJournal
SYNOPSIS
logjam [OPTIONS] [FILE]
DESCRIPTION
logjam is a GTK+ client for LiveJournal-based sites such as livejournal.com.
Aside from writing entries, logjam lets you modify your friends list, edit your previous entries, and more.
When run with no arguments (or just username option), logjam will run in the GUI mode. The user interface is mostly self-explanatory, and
won't be discussed here in detail, except for a few notes below.
OPTIONS AND COMMANDS
Options can be given in either short or long forms. For help on a particular commands, type "logjam COMMAND help". For example, "logjam
grep help" will supply help about the grep command.
Options:
-v, --version
Show version of program.
-q, --quiet
Say less.
-u, --username=USERNAME
Username to operate as.
-p, --password=PASSWORD
Password for the current user.
-a, --postas=USERNAME
User/community to post as.
-f, --file=FILE
File to load.
-e, --edit
Use default editor to edit post.
Subcommands:
checkfriends Efficiently check friends list for updates.
console Run a command on the LiveJournal console.
post Post event immediately.
offline Manage offline copies of your journal.
user Manage user list.
Also, GTK+ command line options (such as --display) can be used.
GUI
This section describes some of the GUI features that aren't immediately apparent.
Check Friends
logjam can monitor your friends list and notify you when new entries are posted there. Enable this by right-clicking on the indicator at
the bottom-left corner of the application window and selecting the appropriate menu item. You may also configure logjam to start doing this
automatically for you when you login. When new entries are detected, the indicator will turn red to let you know; click it to resume
monitoring or double-click it to open your browser on your friends page. Optionally, you can have logjam open a small "floating" indicator
which has some useful GUI settings of its own.
Owners of large friends lists may prefer to be notified only after they accumulate several new posts. You may set the threshold for this in
the Check Friends settings tab. The default is 1, that is, logjam will tell you immediately when it detects new traffic on your friends
page. There is a small limit on the maximum threshold allowed, because this feature is only useful with small threshold values.
STARTUP
When given a FILE argument, logjam will start up with an existing file as the base for the composed entry. If the filename given is "-",
the data will be read from standard input. Several aspects of the entry, such as its subject field and the journal in which to post it to,
can be controlled by other options. This is useful in conjunction with the --commandline option, which causes logjam to post an entry
without going to GUI mode, allowing completely non-interactive posts. If you do wish to interactively edit the entry, but don't want to
load the GUI, use the --edit option.
Autosave
logjam will periodically save a draft of your currently edited entry in ~/.logjam/draft if you turn on the draft option in the Preferences
dialog. This feature is intended for crash recovery, not archiving. If you want to keep a copy of your posts, you should use the
Entry > Save As menu option before submitting them. A future version of logjam will support archiving of your journal.
Please note that when you exit the client normally, your draft is cleared. It does not "stick" for the next invocation, as in the behavior
of some other clients.
Checking friends from the command line
You can use logjam as a backend for a script or another application that wishes to check the friends view. This may be useful if you don't
want to use the GUI, or if you have several journals (in conjunction with --username). To do this, invoke logjam once with
--checkfriends=purge (-rpurge if you're using short options), and then something like:
logjam --checkfriends && new-entries-handler
Make sure that your script or application purges the checkfriends status as described above once the user has acknowledged the new items,
otherwise logjam will always report there's nothing new. You should also pay attention to limiting your query rate, despite the fact that
logjam will refuse to flood the server with queries. For more information, see the messages on the command line. (To suppress these
messages, use --quiet.)
SEE ALSO
<http://logjam.danga.com>
<http://www.livejournal.com/users/logjam/>
<http://www.livejournal.com>
AUTHOR
This manual page was mostly written by Gaal Yahas <gaal@forum2.org>.
4.1.1 2003-04-25 logjam(1)