5.7 KiB
Whalebird
Whalebird is a mastodon client for desktop application.
Feature
- An interface like slack
- Notify to desktop
- Streaming
- Many keyboard shortcuts
- Manage multiple accounts
Shortcuts
| Mac | Linux, Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Toot, Reply | Cmd + Enter | Ctrl + Enter |
| Change accounts | Cmd + 1, 2, 3... | Ctrl + 1, 2, 3... |
| Jump to another timeline | Cmd + k | Ctrl + k |
| Open new toot window | Cmd + n | Ctrl + n |
| Reload current timeline | Cmd + r | Ctrl + r |
| Select next toot | j | j |
| Select previous toot | k | k |
| Switch focus to left column | h | h |
| Switch focus to right column | l | l |
| Reply to the toot | r | r |
| Reblog the toot | b | b |
| Favourite the toot | f | f |
| Open details of the toot | o | o |
| Open account profile of the toot | p | p |
| Open the images | i | i |
| Show/hide CW and NSFW | x | x |
| Close current page | esc | esc |
| Show shortcut keys | ? | ? |
Install
Mac
Or you can download .dmg from release page.
So on, you can install from Homebrew:
$ brew update
$ brew install --cask whalebird
✨ Thanks to @singingwolfboy for adding it to homebrew-cask.
Linux
There are some packages in release page, for example .deb, .rpm and .AppImage.
If you do not want to use the package manager, please download .tar.bz2 file and decompress it.
If you are using snap, please install from snapcraft.io.
$ sudo snap install whalebird
Or you can install from Arch User Repository.
$ yay -S whalebird
Windows
You can download .exe from release page.
Translation
If you can speak multiple languages, could you please help with translation in Crowdin?
Or if you want add new language, please create an issue. I will add it.
Development
We'd love you to contribute to Whalebird.
Minimum requirements for development
- Node.js greater than or equal version 15.0.0 (16.x is recommended)
- npm or yarn
Getting started
# clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop.git
$ cd whalebird-desktop
# Install font config
$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig-dev
# install dependencies
$ yarn install
# serve with hot reload at localhost:9080
$ yarn run dev
License
The software is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
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