[SOLVED] Cannot change Alias in Pidgin.

[locky28]

Hi all,

Not sure if I'm asking in the right place but here goes anyway.

I've had Ubuntu 7.10x64 on my laptop for a while now and all has been going well. However my girlfriend uses it when I'm gaming on my windows machine and shes not to fond of it, mind you she's not very open minded.

Anyway the latest winge fest has been that she cannot change her Alias in Pidgin messenger. This is the version that came with Ubuntu 7.10, I haven't done any updates or added any plugins.
She changed her Alias while on Windows messenger (on windows) to say merry christmas at the end and this came across to pidgin fine. However she has since changed her Alias in Windows messenger ditching the holiday greeting which worked fine. However when in pidgin, even though she has changed her alias in the accounts menu, the people she chats to still see the christmas greeting popping up.

We've (I've) deleted her account in Pidgin and re-created it with no luck.

Any help would be appreciated :(

Thanks,

Locky

[bufsabre666]

did you do it just through the account manager or did you try right clicking the name and changing it

i changed mine once and it stuck through every im that ive used since, even the mobile im on my phone

[some_random_noob]

Go into "accounts" and then put the mouse over your email address. Now a new list of stuff pops up, click on "set friendly name". Your "alias" as you have mentioned is only your local alias. The one which your buddies see is called the "friendly name".

Send me a PM if I've fixed the problem :popcorn:

[locky28]

Thanks guys particularly random noob who showed me the light :P