Others are seeing my name in Pidgin as something diffrent than what I am.

Asked by illiuar

Im seeing my name as just the name, how ever others are seeing my name then "-sleeping, leave one, get back to you in the morning" I cant figure out why its there or how to get rid of it.

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Steven Rose (steveydoteu) said :
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It depends where you have set this display name.

The one that your friends will see is set under the account options for the particular MSN account. The friendly name setting in the Pidgin options, from what I can recall is only for use on the host machine.

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