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 want your buddies who are not online to appear in the Buddy List, click Buddies+Show Offline Buddies.

Figure 11.1. Pidgin Buddy List

Pidgin Buddy List

To add a buddy to your Buddy List, click Buddies+Add Buddy, then enter the information 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 and click Remove.