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Bucho (buchohr-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: hotot won't start correctly xubuntu 12.10

A little workaround:
When you enter your Tweeter username, after that everything is blank but when you move your cursor around, the pointer changes shape.
You move your cursor until it changes like when you click a button or a link. There are several places like that. The tooltip describes what a click does. I think somewhere around the center you have a link to authorize Hotot to Twitter. When you click that, it opens a Firefox window to Twitter to authorize the app. It gives you a code to enter in the Hotot app.
Go to Hotot and move your cursor in the lower area until the cursor changes shape and the tooltip says "Cancel". A little above that the cursor changes like when you are entering text. Blindly input the code in that spot. With your cursor return to the "Cancel" spot and move to the right until the tooltip says "Ok" (I think).
If you did everything right, Hotot will log you in and it will remember the login information. The second time you open Hotot, it will display the blank window for the moment, but after that everything will work just fine.
It's a little messy, but in this way you can use Hotot until they resolve the bug.