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Twhirl Running on Asus EEE PC (Linux)

So the last few weeks I’ve been tinkering around with a new Asus ‘Netbook’ mini laptop; specifically the EEE 901 Linux version. I’ll have more in-depth thoughts on it shortly (but it’ll boil down to the thing is called a netbook, and if you waved a wand over a Psion Netbook to bring it up to date with the modern world, this is what you’d get).

Anyway, I’m pretty pleased with the hacking on it today, as I finally got the Twitter client Twhirl running on the EEE with no nasty terminal command lines or shell windows popping up getting in the way. Here’s what it looks like…

Now I could put in a massive ‘how to’ at this point, but I want to keep playing around, and I’ve got at least two seekrit projekts on the go that need a lot of time. So here are the steps and links to do the same yourself.

I’m using the ‘Easy’ Desktop by the way, If you’re using the full KDE desktop, you’re probably able to hack this yourself…

1) Install Adobe Air for Linux (http://get.adobe.com/air/)
2) Download the Twhirl installation file and save to your disk (http://www.twhirl.org/)
3) Open up the File Manager, find the downloaded file, right click “Open With…” then “Adobe Air Installer.” Go with the defaults on all of these.
4) Now you can, at this point do a magical incantation on the command line, or click on the Twhirl file via the File browser, but my preferred option is to add a new icon to the desktop. Again you can do some hacking of the text files, but you’ll have more luck if you install the Easy Mode Editor. Same drill as in (3), but you’re looking to right click and “Install .DEB file.”
5) Open up the Easy Mode Editor (and add the Easy Mode Editor to the desktop so you can launch it again), and add a new icon with the following command line (opt/twhirl/twhirl)

Now assuming you’ve got through that with your brain intact (and you realise that the easy mode really has no easy customisation options, which has advantages and disadvantages) you should have Twhirl on the desk, one click away from launching. Enjoy.

October 15, 2008; Personal Posts, Web 2.0;

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