5/16/2023 0 Comments Emoticons for adium![]() Somehow during his visit, we arrived on the subject of discussing these former shortcuts and how awesome they made our respective lives. Meanwhile, Russellteee visited my family lifespace to meet my newborn child. Time evolved my skills and I was able to become somewhat proficient in just typing the actual characters to build the emoticons manually… But it was still a long shot away from matching the ctrl x shortcuts. Myself and most of my friends used this feature EXTENSIVELY for worthy communication, and it became frustrating to click/move the mouse to find the correct emoticons. E.G.: Ctrl 6 was the “kissy face”, Ctrl 7 was the “angry face”, etc.Īs time has progressed, Pidgin ceased the emulation of AIM’s ctrl x keyboard shortcuts for emoticons. One of the more efficient and beneficial functions of these applications, including Aol’s official AIM client, was the ctrl-x keyboard shortcuts for each emoticon. The AIM software became ad-ridden and bloated while more chat protocols surfaced – so the community embraced replacements and combination appliations such as DeadAim, Gaim (now Pidgin), Adium, and so on. ![]() It brought everyone some enjoyable times with a revolutionary emoticon set and user warning system. Start or re-start Pidgin and enjoy the old-school AIM-style emoticon keyboard shortcuts!!!īack in the good ol’ days of late 90’s early 2000’s, it seemed like everyone was signing up for Aol’s Instant Messenger.NOTE: The file must be named “gtkrc-2.0” with no file extension “C:\Documents and settings\Username\Application Data\.purple” for Windows users, “/home/username/.purple” for you Unix/Linux folks. Download the file gtkrc-2.0 or copy the text from the end of this post.Have to start with the meat… Here’s how you get AIM style emoticon shortcuts in Pidgin.
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