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#Pidgin download folder install#
#Pidgin download folder code#
#Pidgin download folder windows#

If you have any questions regarding this post, or you want to leave feedback, please write a comment down below. Once everyone is set up, start a conversation, click on the “Smile!” button from the chat window and choose one smiley and press enter. Note that I only tested these scripts on Ubuntu, but it should hopefully work for other Linux distributions as well.

#Pidgin download folder install#

Now in order for the fun to commence you need to send the entire work folder to every person you want to chat with using the custom smileys and tell them to follow the same install procedure. If you just want to switch to the default Pidgin theme or another one, go again to the menu Themes and choose from that list. This will be your uninstall file that you can run when you want to delete the installation files for the theme. Place the binary in your Pidgins plugin directory (/.purple/plugins on Linux).

#Pidgin download folder windows#

Tested Windows binaries are kindly provided by EionRobb on occasion. Zenity -question -ok-label="You bet I do!" -cancel-label="Keep me please!" -text="Do you really want to delete the Pidgin theme \"""$theme_name""\"?" & keep_it_installed=false Download a nightly build (Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows).

#Pidgin download folder code#

Copy and save the code posted below into a bash file named “uninstall_Pidgin_theme.sh” for example or download the script file.

After that, log in into Pidgin, go to the menu Tools -> Preferences -> Themes and choose your custom theme from the drop down list Smiley Theme. This will be your install file that you need to run from the work folder. Zenity -question -ok-label="Close it baby :)" -cancel-label="No?" -text="It's way better to install the theme if I close Pidgin.\nDo you want me to close Pidgin and restart\nit when finished?" || control_pidgnin=false Install_path="$HOME""/.purple/smileys/""$theme_name" # File distributed under the MIT License.

Copy and save the code posted below into a bash file named “install_Pidgin_theme.sh” for example or download the script file.

Between “#start” and “#end” you define each smiley by writing the relative path of the corresponding GIF file and the possible text keys that will trigger the smiley when typed in a conversation. The format of this file is shown in the example below.įor your case, change the Name, Description, Icon path and Author fields to suit your needs.

Create in the work folder a file named “theme” and edit it.

Once you have that, you can now start to create a custom theme for Pidgin. Put these in a subfolder exactly named as “smileys” (without the quotes).

Then you will need to download from the web a set of GIF files that will become the images for your custom smileys. Before we start let’s make a work folder for our project and name it “Pidgin_custom_smileys” for example.