Tweetdeck problems on MATE desktop

[Grandad]

I'm using Linux Mint 12 (amd64) and have installed Adobe Air and Tweetdeck. [I know about both being discontinued, but I'm stubborn]

Tweetdeck works perfectly on the Gnome Desktop. However, when I switch to MATE [my preference] Tweetdeck refuses to go anywhere. I get a "Ooops. Tweetdeck cannot find your data" or somesuch and it goes into a sulk. I'm left with a blank black Tweetdeck screen with all the little icons on the top.

I tried purging both Air and Tweetdeck and installing both via MATE, but that makes no difference.

Has anyone come across anything like this before?

[Oscar799]

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[Penguinette]

I am having the exact same issue. I know how to install Tweetdeck in OpenSuse and Ubuntu with out it crashing. For some reason you can install it in Mate but all it does is crash once you open it up.. Help Please.. Thank You Very Much.

[äxl]

Running the applications from terminal (maybe even verbose) would show some error logs.

[Grandad]

Thanks äxl

Sorry! I'm new[ish] to Linux. I should have done that first.

I ran Tweetdeck from Terminal -

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(TweetDeck:17451): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory

(TweetDeck:17451): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory

(TweetDeck:17451): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory

(TweetDeck:17451): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
Unknown desktop manager, only Gnome and KDE are supported

I just checked in Synaptic and "pixbuf" seems to be installed. Is that any use?

[Penguinette]

I am a bit confused as to what is going on with this Mate desktop. I still have not gotten Tweetdeck to work properly on it.

[Monsta]

I know about both being discontinued

Unknown desktop manager, only Gnome and KDE are supported

Well... I guess these two quotes pretty much answer the question.

[Grandad]

Hah! Thanks Monsta. I missed that.

No problem - I rarely use Twitter anyway. And I have Mint 13 to play around with now.

[Penguinette]

@GrandDad.. Where did you get Mint 13?

[Monsta]

@GrandDad.. Where did you get Mint 13?

RC edition is out: viewtopic.php?f=60&t=102030
Yes, it's in the "Chat about Linux Mint" section this time, a bit unusual to find it there

[Penguinette]

i am on vacation at the moment and only have my phone for net access.. So if words r misspelled sorry n advance. i am thinking|wondering if maybe running the stable mint lts might do the trick as far as tweetdeck is concerned. i am stuborn so needless to say i have not given up yet.

[WildTux]

Iḿ still in Mint 11. It's only because old Tweetdeck (0.38.2).

[Grandad]

Hah! I finally got Tweetdeck to run.

I'm running 13 [Mate version] and installed Wine. Using that, I installed TweetDeck.msi. The only problem then was that I had to CD into the Tweetdeck folder to run it which was messy and tedious, so I created a small shell script:

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cd "/home/grandad/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Twitter/TweetDeck"
wine TweetDeck.exe

The script is now run directly from the menu and works perfectly.