Mitter has a debug mode, start with ‘mitter -d’ from a shell – hopefully that can help trace the cause of the hang. But I doubt the hang would be due to blocking by Twitter. In any case, 0.4 will also have a feature that silently monitors your API usage and alerts you if it looks like you might cross the limit.

Oh, if you do find anything helpful in the debug messages.. do file a bug report!

Cheers.

Thanks for the screenshot props. May I one-up the compliment by saying that despite its minor usability quirks, I’m still using Mitter two weeks later?

Every now and then it hangs on “Updating your status” when I send an update, but a simple quit and restart clears that problem. (Something to do with the Twitter API blocking me? I have it set to check every 12 minutes, so I thought I was safe.)

Mitter is an excellent program, one which I hope gains a substantial userbase. It’s simple, fast, and really quite elegant—the right-click fiasco having been explained to me.

This design decision definitely reinforces the “right-click everything” mindset of Linux

Haha. Actually, this design decision reinforces the fact that PyGTK isn’t really that flexible. Both your complaints, clickety links and resizing text entry, can’t be implemented without hacking on Gtk widgets. Instead of doing that, we make do with what Gtk provides

BTW, try double clicking on a tweet in a recent mitter – it’ll go directly to the (first) embedded url in the tweet.

Also, sweet screenshot!

Cheers,

lazy dev