Re: Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

2021-04-14 Thread pidgin
On 2021-04-14 16:28, Eion Robb wrote: Sorry about that. Behind the scenes there's two different buddy lists on Hangouts and they end up fighting with each other when the account reconnects As a workaround, you can use https://github.com/EionRobb/pidgin-ignore-nickchange which suppresses those me

RE: Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

2021-04-14 Thread Phil Smith III
As usual, Eion is my hero! Thank you sir. It's installed and configured, I think--the "Apply hiding rules to buddies" is what I want, I assume? Of course I'll know that it's working only because I won't see messages that might have otherwise seen--sorta trying to prove a negative... -Origin

Re: Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

2021-04-14 Thread Eion Robb
Sorry about that. Behind the scenes there's two different buddy lists on Hangouts and they end up fighting with each other when the account reconnects As a workaround, you can use https://github.com/EionRobb/pidgin-ignore-nickchange which suppresses those messages On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 01:58 Phil

Re: Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

2021-04-14 Thread pidgin
On 2021-04-14 09:58, Phil Smith III wrote: Is there a way to suppress those? These appear for Google Hangouts users, though not all such, which is odd. All are aliased; I'd have said they were all set up the same, but something appears to be different. I am getting those all the time (for hango

Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

2021-04-14 Thread Phil Smith III
When my ISP is flaky, as happens from time to time, it'll disconnect and reconnect repeatedly. When it does so, I wind up with IM windows full of sequences like this: (4:02:44 AM) 106452616995561063094 is now known as xx. (4:02:45 AM) 106452616995561063094 is now known as YYY. (7:14: