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Buddy List Indention

Lo Yuk Fai
2004-12-09
2013-01-14
  • Lo Yuk Fai

    Lo Yuk Fai - 2004-12-09

    Hi all,

    Is there any way to reduce the indention of contacts in the Buddy List?

    Thanks!

     
    • Tim Ringenbach

      Tim Ringenbach - 2004-12-10

      Not really, but see the example gtkrc-2.0 file at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gtkrc-2.0 specificly the part that says:

      # This style sets the expander size on a treeview to 0, which has the result
      # of reducing the indent for items in the tree. This can be applied to the
      # Gaim buddy list to reduce it's width.
      # This only works in Gaim 0.79 and higher
      style "my-narrow-tree"
      {
        GtkTreeView::expander_size = 0
      }

      # And apply the style to the buddy list:
      widget "*gaim_gtkblist_treeview" style "my-narrow-tree"

       
      • leeinvank

        leeinvank - 2005-07-04

        I left Gaim running for awhile today and returned to my system to find the previously minimized buddy list window restored and taking up the whole window.  I hit "minimize" so I could size it back down, but was never able to get any handles to do so.  I tried several other things and was not able to get handles to resize this window.  I am still able to size an IM window but cannot change the size of the buddy list.  How can I do this?

         
        • iletmyselfin

          iletmyselfin - 2007-06-16

          Updated to Pidgin last week in accordance with a computer upgrade. Having the same problem with not being able to resize my buddy list horizontally (am able to resize vertically without problems).

          Thanks for any help.

           
    • Lo Yuk Fai

      Lo Yuk Fai - 2004-12-12

      Thanks Tim, EXACTLY what I was looking for!

      Looks like there are quite a few configurable options with gtkrc.

      Would like to see more such features configurable with a GUI interface in the future.

      Thanks again! : )

       
    • dan

      dan - 2005-02-13

      great but i'm terribly new to gtk...

      which gtkrc file should i add this to?

      thanks,

      -baraboom

       
      • Jeremy Smith

        Jeremy Smith - 2006-04-07

        I am also very interested in loosing all that wasted indentation space. I tried writing the suggested settings to my ~/.gtkrc file, but it does nothing. Is that not the correct file I need to modify?

         
        • Etan Reisner

          Etan Reisner - 2006-04-07

          No, it is the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file like the FAQ says.

           
          • Jeremy Smith

            Jeremy Smith - 2006-04-11

            Ah, right. Thanks, works like a charm now :)