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Quick Tip

Let’s face it, the GAIM/Pigdin icons are not that, er, nice. There’s still hope. You can have prettier icons on your buddy list. I know looks don’t matter that much but let’s make the experience more interesting. Here’s how:

Get a fancy icon from deviantart (dock icons work best)
Resize it to 48×48 and save it as PNG
Copy and overwrite it to /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/status/default with the intended protocol icon

You have to overwrite the old file (e.g. yahoo.png for Yahoo! IM or msn.png for MSN/Windows Live). The change is also applied to Guifications.

Now that's a buddy list

Note: Tried and tested on FC6

This entry was posted on Monday, April 16th, 2007 at 23.57.18 and is filed under Journals of a Penguin. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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jploh 2 years ago 1 point
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Glad to be of service. Thanks for the comment!

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Pali Madra 2 years ago 1 point
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A great tip thanks and it is great to have the new version of Gaim

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