{"id":941,"date":"2009-08-11T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=941"},"modified":"2023-03-13T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T08:16:21","slug":"pidgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/pidgin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pidgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Meta<\/h3>\n<p>I have been using Pidgin as a multi-protocol client for my instant messenger services since about 2008. This page is now marked as deprecated. The contents of this page originally relate to problems I was having with <b>pidgin<\/b> on a windows system. It was written in the Autumn of 2008 and both windows and pidgin have had many new releases or updates since then. I can&#8217;t imagine that it remains of much use. i.e. this page is out of date and not very useful now. I recognised on copying the page from its source that the page required amendment so in Dec 2014, I needed to document the installation of themes I moved the 2008 content to the comments section.<\/p>\n<h3>Themes<\/h3>\n<p>In 2014, as we had moved on from Windows XP, the theme management features of Pidgin became attractive to allow it to fit in more easily.<\/p>\n<p>One approach is to edit the GTK preferences, document on this page,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150421034310\/http:\/\/www.techjawa.com:80\/2010\/11\/02\/guide-theme-pidgin-in-windows-updated\">http:\/\/www.techjawa.com\/2010\/11\/02\/guide-theme-pidgin-in-windows-updated\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One needs to be careful how one unpacks these, the themes need to have the correct name hierarchy, i.e. %appdata%\\.purple\\themes\\${Theme Name}\\purple\\*, some installation techniques may leave one with the theme name repeated twice.<\/p>\n<h3>Protocol Helpers<\/h3>\n<p>Lync &amp; TRM need SIPE, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/sipe\/\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/sipe\/<\/a>, when installing this using the NSIS installer, this worked fine, as you&#8217;d expect since there&#8217;s little google evidence that it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Skype &amp; Reuters Messeneger needed its own plugin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta I have been using Pidgin as a multi-protocol client for my instant messenger services since about 2008. This page is now marked as deprecated. The contents of this page originally relate to problems I was having with pidgin on a windows system. It was written in the Autumn of 2008 and both windows and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[292,1184,54,293,296,920,911],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-technology","tag-chat","tag-deprecated","tag-howto","tag-messaging","tag-pidgin","tag-software","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7449,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/7449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}