I was asked by mjhb in twitter, how to get Spaz (a open-source desktop Twitter client), working with a local copy of laconi.ca. Here is how:

Go to Preferences Tab (First tab going from right to left).

The click on the Account Information section, so the options are showed (as we see in the image bellow).

Then click on the Service URL and click on Load settings for.

This way there Spaz will not try to load any preset settings for twitter or identi.ca. Next thing to do is to fill up your Authentication info: Username, Password and the URL of your server, as we see bellow.

Note that is similar to the settings for identi.ca. In base API URL just put the IP or URL of your server followed by “/api/”. Then in Base WWW URL you put the ip or host of the server. There is one more step and I guess this is the dirty trick to make it work.

Go to the networking section and then uncheck the Auto-adjust refresh interval checkbox. After that click on the Save Preferences bottom to check that all is good. If you have any questions, leave a comment or tweet me at gtothesquare.