I have been playing around with a neat console based twitter client called rainbowstream. After installation and initial config I kept getting<\/p>\n
errors when starting the client. The config in your home directory is for per-user customizations.<\/p>\n I tried touching an empty file in my home directory but I then received:<\/p>\n So then I found the default config in the rainbowstream app directory and copied it over top of the config in my home directory:<\/p>\n This worked perfectly and now rainbowstream doesn’t complain on startup anymore.<\/p>\n EDIT: Thanks to Naik for providing the updated paths for debian based distros in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been playing around with a neat console based twitter client called rainbowstream. After installation and initial config I kept getting Your ~\/.rainbow_config.json is messed up: >>> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘\/home\/username\/.rainbow_config.json’ errors when starting the client. The config in your home directory is for per-user customizations. I tried touching an … <\/p>\n Your ~\/.rainbow_config.json is messed up:
\n>>> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\/home\/username\/.rainbow_config.json'<\/code><\/p>\nYour ~\/.rainbow_config.json is messed up:
\n>>> No JSON object could be decoded<\/code><\/p>\ncp \/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/rainbowstream\/colorset\/config ~\/.rainbow_config.json<\/code><\/p>\n