How do you show ONLY mentions or DMs?

Hi, thanks for the support!

To open specific columns, go to the File menu and use one of the "New (...) Stream" submenus. You will find options to open all types of columns, for tweets, users, lists and DMs.

Polly uses indeed the "one column for each thing" approach, and I don't plan to change this. However, I have plans to implement easier column switching that will likely be the same thing in practice.

As for the notifications area, Polly uses the Ubuntu Messaging Menu by default. You can switch to a traditional tray icon instead if you start with the --statusicon paramenter.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Yes, a better approach would indeed be... Well, better. :P I never would have thought to look at the "files" menu to add columns. Silly me, I suppose. :-/

But help me out here with the notifications thingy. I am running Ubuntu, and at the moment, unfortunately am running Gnome rather than Unity. (My graphics card died and I'm on an old backup that I had laying around.) But Polly isn't showing up there. So I assume the default "statusicon" parameter isn't right for Gnome.

You are right. Until now I was following the usual naming convention for menubars, but the next version of Polly will rename the first item to "Streams".

As for the notification area, the "--statusicon" parameter should work, I just tested it. Are you sure you used it correctly, with two hyphens?

Unity blacklists tray icons by default, but I don't think this affects regular GNOME...

Are you using GNOME-Shell? It shows tray icons on the bottom right.

Okay, I misunderstood. I thought it was supposed to hook to the messaging system by default. (Which it isn't, at least not on my 11.04 system running Gnome.) I'm getting no notifications at all simply running it "out of the box" from the "Internet" window.

Lemee see what happens if I start it from the command line...

Umm... No change. Nothing in on the status bar. And yeah, I used to hyphens. Unix/linux standard for long switches. (Not that everybody follows that old convention anymore, but hey... :) )

Also, an FYI. Polly locked up on me adding a "mention" column. Was the 3rd one. When I restarted it was fine. The column was even there. But it froze and I had to manually kill it.

It *is* supposed to hook to the Messaging Menu by default. I'm not sure what's happening to you, I tested both options in a 11.04 install and they worked fine.

As for the lock up, this is the first report I'm aware of. If it happens again please see if something appeared on the terminal.

I'll do that. But you apparently have it set to fork, because when I start it from the terminal it fires up and I end up with a prompt again.

Anyway... I'll mark this thread as closed, since you've solved the original problem.

Again, thank you SO MUCH for doing this project! Keep it up!

What do you mean by --statusicon? Where do I set this and how? I would also like for it to be in the system tray. Thanks much!

Andrew, --statusicon is a command line parameter.

Thank you. How do I initiate this? Just "polly --statusicon"? Will I have to launch Polly this way every time?

Yes, that's it. If you want to make this permanent you can edit the Exec line in /usr/share/applications/polly.desktop

With the latest update of Polly outside of Unity (for example in GNOME Shell and E17) the tray icon shows in the tray. Is there anyway to disable the tray icon? I don't want that tray icon, I have the window in my window list open already.

The icon currently cannot be disabled in these cases. You're not supposed to keep the window in the window list, you are supposed to keep it closed, with only the icon shown.

With window list I meant taskbar/panel/whatever you wanna call it on non Unity-environments. But thanks for the answer.

Er, it's exactly to those I'm referring to. So let me repeat in these terms: you're not supposed to keep the window in the taskbar/panel/whatever you wanna call it on non Unity-environments, you are supposed to keep it closed, with only the icon shown.