Note that if you are using a compositing window manager such as Compiz, you may have global support for modifying the opacity of any window.
This method does not require extra support from the applications. Windows: If you just want the buddy list to remain above other windows, you can dock it to the side of your desktop using the "Windows Pidgin Options" plugin and set the "Always On Top" option accordingly. The "Transparency" plugin is capable of making your conversation windows stay on top.
Both plugins are included with Pidgin. In order to create a chatroom, you need to use the "Join Chat Room" dialog and choose a room name that is still free. Some XMPP servers also let you create chat rooms with random room names using the buddy list's context menu. Option 1: ask someone to invite you Ask someone who is in the chatroom to invite you.
Option 3: Use the room list In the tools menu, there is an option that shows you a list of chat rooms that you can join. Please note that this feature doesn't work with all IM networks. Most networks hide rooms from the list that their owner doesn't want to have listed. Pidgin has a persistent chat feature, where you will remain in a chat room even if you close the window.
When you open the window again, all the messages that were sent are still there as if the window had been open the whole time. To make a chat persistent, add it to your buddy list, then right click and choose "Persistent" from the context menu.
You will need to restart Pidgin when you have finished. After coercing Pidgin into rereading this file for instance, by restarting it , you can hover over a menu item and hit the keystroke you want to bind to it, and your wish will be granted!
You might want to turn off gtk-can-change-accels again when you're done, since it's pretty easy to bind keys by mistake with it turned on. If you're using a recent enough Gnome, you can instead open the Appearance preferences applet, switch to the Interface tab and toggle Editable menu shortcut keys.
You don't need to restart Pidgin if you take the gconf path. If you're using Xfce 4, you also need to have Editable menu accelerators checked in your User Interface Preferences. As of 2.
Pidgin uses gstreamer to play sounds. Playing sounds directly through esound or arts is no longer supported. To compile Pidgin with support for gstreamer you need libgstreamer0. These packages are named differently on different platforms. The "Automatic" option lets gstreamer pick how the sounds are played. We've had a lot of problems with various firewalls, particularly Norton Internet Security and Symantec Client Firewall.
Many firewalls will not fully stop interfering with a program's ability to connect when configured to do so. This is a horribly obtuse error message which simply means that Pidgin was unable to connect to some remote host, probably the IM server you were trying to use. If you are running a Windows firewall product, check the appropriate FAQ question for possible solutions.
Yes, if you set the proxy preference to "Use Environmental Settings", Pidgin will parse the HTTP Proxy setting from Windows as long as you have a specific server set; auto-detection and configuration via. It is relatively easy to set up Pidgin to run from a USB drive. Most of Pidgin is very good about not assuming that it is installed; a slightly customized launcher makes it all come together nicely.
Now you can move the entire portable onto your USB drive e. Follow the instructions here to submit a bug report. Non-current versions have old bugs which may be fixed in the current version--that's why we make new releases. Monotone is frequently unusable because of changes in the code. Bugs are introduced during the development process and are hopefully fixed before a release is made. Note that Windows Explorer will not allow you create a file that starts with a period; you'll need to use a text editor or rename the file in a cmd shell.
You can't manually resize the text input area, nor disable auto-resizing. The area auto-resizes up to a height of half the window height before the scrollbar appears. This is a significant difference from previous versions of Pidgin, and though it was requested more than once, we know it will prove to be a controversial decision. Fortunately for all of you out there, we also provide plugins to change it.
The two plugins we provide are the Timestamp plugin and the Message Timestamp Formats plugin. Timestamp allows you to have iChat style timestamps, but it is implemented to behave slightly differently. In reality, a buddy pounce is much like a macro, or a recorded action. When you set a pounce on someone, you can choose from a number of events, such as sign on or status change, and then you choose from a number of actions.
These actions include everything from playing a sound like an alert would do to sending a message to the person, to executing a command. This action will occur the next time pidgin detects the event, i.
No, you can't. We get requests for this often, but Pidgin is indeed a messaging client. Aside from the capabilities each protocol may support, the Pidgin developers have no intention to turn Pidgin into a multi-feature Internet client capable of doing everything under the sun. We also won't be helping to develop plugins to turn it into that.
There are many Internet applications available for Linux, Windows, or whatever operating system you use that would undoubtedly do a better job. See Bug for further information. By default the tray icon will load if you have a Notification Area or a System Tray in your desktop environment. This may mean that the Pidgin root certificate set is incomplete. If so, we'd like to hear about it. Do the following:. Pidgin is an IM client, not an IM service.
You need to change your password with the IM service e. We cannot help you with this. If you have a working Pidgin install set to log on automatically on another computer, you may be able to find your account password in accounts. The location of this directory is discussed elsewhere in this portion of the FAQ, in the Miscellaneous group for your specific platform.
For the user who installed Pidgin, the language selected during installation will be the default. If neither of these are specified, it will fall back to the default Windows user locale setting.
Note that if the translation for the specified language isn't present, Pidgin will fall back to the English default. See below for how to install additional translations. Data is stored in your user's "Application Data" directory in a.
The location of this will vary according to your setup and version of Windows. Pidgin will, by default, prevent multiple instances from running simultaneously.
If you do this, you may find the -c parameter useful to specify unique configuration directories for each instance e. See Bug for information about this issue. See these tickets: , , As of version 2. ICCCM states that one is meant to be the same for all instances of the application and the other is meant to be unique to that instance of the application.
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Windows 11 Uninstall Clock. Teams Walkie-Talkie. For a native macOS experience we recommend Adium , which uses libpurple the core of Pidgin for much of its protocol support.
Please note, we do not provide support for issues related to installing Homebrew, pkgin, Fink, Macports, or their packages of Pidgin. Contact those projects directly with questions or concerns. If you want to use Pidgin, you should either download and use our Windows installer or look for pre-built packages from your operating system distribution. If you are looking to modify Pidgin, you may want to look at our instructions for contributing code from our repository.
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