Managing Your Contacts; Chatting With Friends - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - APPLICATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Application Manual

15.2 Managing Your Contacts

Use the Buddy List to manage your contacts, also known as buddies. You can add and
remove buddies from your Buddy List, and you can organize your buddies in groups
so they are easy to find.
After your accounts are set up, all buddies who are online appear in your Buddy List.
If you also want your buddies who are not online to appear in the Buddy List, click
Buddies > Show Offline Buddies.
Figure 15.1 Pidgin Buddy List
To add a buddy to your Buddy List, click Buddies > Add Buddy, then enter the informa-
tion about that buddy.
NOTE: Adding Contacts for Certain Protocols
For some protocols, you cannot add a buddy in the Pidgin interface. You must
use the client for those protocols if you want to add to your buddy list. After
you have added a buddy in the protocol's client, that buddy appears in your
Buddy List.
To remove a buddy from the list of contacts, right-click on that buddy's name in the
Buddy List, then click Remove.

15.3 Chatting with Friends

It is necessary to be connected to the Internet to be able to chat with other participants.
After successful login, you are usually marked as Available in the Buddy List and thus
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