March 2, 2008

Pidgin Aliases (Meta Contacts)

I have been looking for this feature in Pidgin's menus for a while. However, I found it last week, completely by accident. Here is a simple how-to on making aliases.

  1. Select one of the contacts that you want to group.
  2. Right-click and select "Expand."
  3. Now the Alias is expanded you can see that there is one account under it. Click and drag any other accounts you want to group under the alias.
  4. You can rename both the accounts and the alias itself by right-clicking on each and selecting "Alias..."
  5. When you are done, collapse the alias, by right-clicking on it and selecting "Collapse" or clicking on its triangle.

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