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November 15, 2006

Blogging From Ubuntu Using Drivel

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Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or simply blogs. It retains a simple and elegant design while providing many powerful features.

Drivel Features

Support for LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom journals (systems based off these are also supported,

including WordPress and Drupal)

The ability to post, edit, delete, and view recent entries

Integrated spellchecking and HTML syntax highlighting

Offline composition and editing

Automatic recovery in the event of a crash

Journal system extensions, including LiveJournal security groups and MovableType categories

Install Drivel in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install drivel

This will complete the installation

Now if you want to open drivel go to Applications—>Internet—>Drivel Journal Editor you can see this in the following screen

Once it open drivel you should see the following screen here you need to select the username,password,journal type and server address

Here you can select the available journal types by selecting drop down box you can see in the following screen

If you want to blog wordpress or Drupal you need to select MovableType as the Journal Type and enter the server address.For wordpress blogging you need to add xmlrpc.php at the end of your blog address.

In this example i am using livejournal login details you can see this in the following screen and click on login

Once you logged in to livejournal you can see the following screen here you can add your content to your blog

If you click on show more options at the bottom of the window you should see the following screen

Now we will post our first post to my livejournal enter all the details and click on post


Drivel Version Details

Now we will see each tool bar options available for drivel Journal Editor

Drivel Journal Options you can see in the following screen

Drivel Edit Options you can see in the following screen like clear entry,last entry,friends etc

If you select Preferences option from edit you should see the following screen

Drivel View Options you can see in the following screen like Highlight spelling errors,Highlight HTML

Drivel Format Options you can see in the following screen like selecting fornt type,insert image,insert link etc

Drivel Web Links Options you can see in the following screen like recent entries,calender view etc

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