Code for Concinnity » extended preferences http://cfc.kizzx2.com beautiful and elegant solutions Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:24:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pidgin: Changing font size in the conversation window http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/pidgin-changing-font-size-in-the-conversation-window/ http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/pidgin-changing-font-size-in-the-conversation-window/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:51:19 +0000 kizzx2 http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/pidgin-changing-font-size-in-the-conversation-window/

(This mainly serves as a reminder to myself because it is not really obvious)

By default, Pidgin uses the theme’s font in conversation window. Most of the time, though, that would be too small for my liking. There is an option in the preferences window that allows you the change the conversation font.

Pidgin Preferences Window

However…

If you change the font size via that option, then the other party will see your messages typed in that font. That’s not always desirable. For example, I may just want my fonts to be bigger so I can read the text easily, but the other person using a netbook probably doesn’t appreciate me robbing his screen real-estate.

So how do we do it? We do it with a plug-in: Extended Preferences

Plugin - Extended Preferences

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