GNOME Twitch [github, Official Site] recently released a major new version of their open source desktop Twitch client and it's a beauty. The new version includes: Notifications of when people you follow go live, Language selection in the menu to filter livestreams, chat badges, viewer count for games and more. See the changelog here.
To grab it on Arch you need this package along with one of the players to actually view videos (listed on the page). For Ubuntu you can use this PPA. There's also a FlatPak, if that's your thing.
I much prefer it to using Twitch in a browser personally, since it's faster and I get better quality and the overall feel is much nicer than a browser window. One thing that is missing is the actual viewer count on each channel, something I would like to see. Also, the ability to see who is in the channel chatting too, a list would be nice. I actually requested these features and the developer was very receptive, as they plan to include such features in the next release.
There's other tools like "Streamlink" which will enable you to view a Twitch stream in your favourite desktop player.
Also, while you're here, be sure to follow GOL on Twitch. We have a livestream schedule to watch and you can submit your own there too.
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itsraineing 4 Apr 2017
Good to see GNOME Twitch improving; it was pretty nice last time I tried it, but didn't quite have the features to replace the Streamlink GUI for me.
By the way, livestreamer's development has been dead for over a year now, [streamlink](https://streamlink.github.io/) is the actively maintained fork.
By the way, livestreamer's development has been dead for over a year now, [streamlink](https://streamlink.github.io/) is the actively maintained fork.
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Is Twitch now a game store? And do they sell Linux games? What about DRM there?
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Is Twitch now a game store? And do they sell Linux games? What about DRM there?Nope. :)
You can browse streams by game though.
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Is Twitch now a game store? And do they sell Linux games? What about DRM there?Nope. :)
You can browse streams by game though.
Well, I actually just saw this: [Twitch to start selling video games this week](https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/twitch-starts-selling-video-games-on-its-site-today/). So I thought this is a new open source client for their store.
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This is great news!
I've tried it out and I quite like it, it's way handier than having yet another browser tab open! It now features quite a few functions and features.
I've tried it out and I quite like it, it's way handier than having yet another browser tab open! It now features quite a few functions and features.
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Well, I actually just saw this: [Twitch to start selling video games this week](https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/twitch-starts-selling-video-games-on-its-site-today/). So I thought this is a new open source client for their store.Oh wow. I had no idea that was happening. I guess this isn't a big surprise, Twitch being owned by Amazon and all.
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oh it works also in ubuntu with unity! i didn't expect that xD btw ty for the advice it's a nice program
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By the way, livestreamer's development has been dead for over a year now, streamlink is the actively maintained fork.Good catch, since one was forked from the other they are very similar, keep getting them mixed up, cheers.
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*sigh* I know some people like GNOME, but I just can't stand the whole "you've got two buttons that show the menus containing all the things" thing. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I just like having a good old-fashioned menu bar.
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*sigh* I know some people like GNOME, but I just can't stand the whole "you've got two buttons that show the menus containing all the things" thing. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I just like having a good old-fashioned menu bar.
That's the beauty of Linux, options! I personally love Gnome 3 but I can understand the preference of functionality in category menus.
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I personally prefer as a KDE user the [Orion twitch client](https://github.com/alamminsalo/orion) which is made in Qt5/qml, it's also cross platform (including android version in the works):
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Last edited by ahjolinna on 5 Apr 2017 at 2:21 am UTC
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since Gnome Twitch added the emote, notifications and account login support i've started using this full time. I was using Orion from the AUR. which allowed for account login and notifications, while keeping a native looking UI.
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People keep raving about how good [Streamlink Twitch GUI](https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui) is, but unfortunately they don't provide a .deb or .rpm package at all, and there seems to be little interest on the part of the dev to provide them. I tried installing via npm as the site suggests and it totally didn't work, so I gave it up as a bad experience.
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People keep raving about how good [Streamlink Twitch GUI](https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui) is, but unfortunately they don't provide a .deb or .rpm package at all, and there seems to be little interest on the part of the dev to provide them. I tried installing via npm as the site suggests and it totally didn't work, so I gave it up as a bad experience.Just tried it this morning. Seems slick. There's no need for npm or anything, just make sure you've got streamlink (>=0.4.0), x11-utils and xdg-utils (or the equivalent packages) and then download the [latest release](https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui/releases). Now you can just run start.sh from wherever you extracted the package or create a nice desktop launcher with the included script.
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Micromegas 5 Apr 2017
People keep raving about how good [Streamlink Twitch GUI](https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui) is, but unfortunately they don't provide a .deb or .rpm package at all, and there seems to be little interest on the part of the dev to provide them. I tried installing via npm as the site suggests and it totally didn't work, so I gave it up as a bad experience.Just tried it this morning. Seems slick. There's no need for npm or anything, just make sure you've got streamlink (>=0.4.0), x11-utils and xdg-utils (or the equivalent packages) and then download the [latest release](https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui/releases). Now you can just run start.sh from wherever you extracted the package or create a nice desktop launcher with the included script.
Thanks for this information! Installing "streamlink" is easy with "pip" and after that "streamlink-twitch-gui" indeed just works if you copy it to /opt for instance. It has also nice configuration options.
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