Tweetdeck on non-GNOME/non-KDE systems

I had some considerable difficulty getting tweetdeck running on Ubuntu Xfce. For some odd reason tweetdeck starts, but nothing works. Something to do with session management.

Here's the solution I found digging around the internet. Put the following in a script, call it say /usr/bin/tweetdeck.sh:

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#!/bin/bash

GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID="whatever" /opt/TweetDeck/bin/TweetDeck
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Make the script executable, and change your launchers to run that script instead.

Now TweetDeck runs perfectly on Xfce, and I assume any other odd window manager/desktop environment.