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l33tunderground

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Registered: 2007-05-09

Posts: 103

How to use custom smileys in Pidgin.

Hey everyone. I can't help but notice that there is a fancy new dialog in the pidgin tools menu called "Smiley" where you can, supposedly, set smiley images to specific shortcuts. Well, I can't seem to make this thing work for the life of me. Does anyone have any insight into how this works?

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: How to use custom smileys in Pidgin.

Just click the add button, click the button next to smiley image and pick an image, and then type a "shortcut" in the box.

By shortcut it means the keyword to transform text to smiley.

For example, :) makes an image of the smile smiley, while (Z) makes the male icon. Just pick something that you will not type by accident that is easy to remember.

Last edited by Statix (2008-08-28 02:30:26)

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fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: How to use custom smileys in Pidgin.

Also, it only works with MSN for now according to the changelog.

l33tunderground

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Registered: 2007-05-09

Posts: 103

Re: How to use custom smileys in Pidgin.

Also, it only works with MSN for now according to the changelog.

Aha. Thank you both.