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Pidgin vcard alias/nickname display

Asked by Azhar

Is it possible to display my contacts given/full/nickame instead of their jids in my pidgin client? I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 with the default 2.4.1 pidgin client

TIA!

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JP Viljoen (froztbyte) said : 		#1

Hi

This should be the default behaviour. Or rather, on my side, connecting to the GTalk servers using Jabber, all my contacts are displayed with their name, if set, and then otherwise the jid directly. What sort of server are you connecting to?

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Azhar (azacamis) said : 		#2

Openfire. JAJC client has this option so I never thought it's server side issue.

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Azhar (azacamis) said : 		#3

Can anyone shed some light? My client is showing JIDs instead of their nicknames as specified in their Vcard by the server. Even weirder is when this only happen for some contacts, where I have to manually "Get Info" before their nicknames are reflected properly and I have to do this every time I restart the client. Some contacts still still show JIDs no matter what I do.

It's difficult when users' JID don't mean a thing. I had to resort to installing Wine and JAJC just because JAJC has no issues displaying their nicknames correctly.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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