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Combining Contacts on Pidgin

If you use a multiprotocol IM application, you are bound to have at least one person that uses at least two different services that you use as well. This makes for a longer and harder to follow contact list. Fortunately, in the popular cross platform IM application Pidgin, it is possible to combine two contacts into one master contact. (This tutorial should also work with the Gaim 2.0 betas such as the version included with Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn.)

1. Right click on the contact you wish to combine and select Expand.

Expanding Contact

2. You should then see it the contact expanded, as below.

expanded.png

3. Drag and drop the contact you want to combine to the expanded contact.

combining.png

4. If you wish, you can drag in more contacts to combine.
5. Once you collaspe the expanded contact, you should then see what appears to be a normal person on your contact list. Until you hover over a combined contact, you will never notice the difference.

combined.png

Have fun leading a more organized IM life!

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This article was originally written on 10/16/07 Tagged with: Open Source

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Comments (8)

  1. Jarek

    If anyone is wondering about the away message, the or is crossed out. The html is stripped in that view, though.

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  4. nick name

    merge multiple contacts in pidgin to get rid of doubles (i just wanted to add the word “merge” to that website so whoever searches that will find it here).

  5. Beresdeh

    Good Articles, thank you. this article is very useful

  6. sekhar

    Thanks for the Article……

  7. ryan

    Now I don't have to wait for digsby on nix!

  8. Sam

    Hm, 'expand' to 'combine' is a pretty counter-intuitive user interface…


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