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(TM) 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 checking, 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 <<codehelp@debian.org>> for the Debian(TM) 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.

AUTHOR

           Author.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2003 Neil McGovern
       Copyright © 2009 Neil Williams

drivel                                            March 9, 2009                                        DRIVEL(1)