- Overview
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Getting Started
- What is Adium?
- Installing
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Accounts
- Creating Accounts
- Personal Settings
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Contacts
- Managing Contacts
- Managing Groups
- Combining Contacts
- Blocking/Privacy
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Chatting
- Fonts & Colors
- Message Tabs
- Chat Transcripts (Logs)
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Advanced Features
- Voice & Video Chat
- File Transfer
- Direct Connect
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Support
- Troubleshooting
- FAQ
- Bug Reports
- Feature Requests
- Contact Us
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Development
- Contributing to Adium
- Getting the Code
- Contributing Code
- Following Development
- Sparkle Statistics
- Adium Sponsors
Buddy Icons
This page provides information about various aspects of buddy icons (contact pictures)
- How to set your own buddy icon
- How to set an animating buddy icon
- To set an icon for a contact (overriding whatever icon they may have chosen):
- Get Info on the contact by selecting the contact then choosing Get Info from the Contact menu
- Double click the icon space in the top-lefthand corner of the window
- Select an icon
- Preserving transparency of an icon follows the same rules as setting animating buddy icons
- To remove an icon for a contact once set as above, click on it and press Delete / Backspace
- Icons, once retrieved, are cached at ~/Library/Caches/Adium/Default
- Recent icons set via the icon picker (both for contacts and for yourself) are cached at ~/Library/Images/iChat Recent Pictures, and such recent icons are shared with iChat
Icons should be retrieved automatically from your contacts when you sign on and when contacts change icons. In AIM, exchanging two messages with a contact may be necessary for the icon to be retrieved, depending upon what messaging client the contact is using. On some services, getting Info on a contact via Get Info may trigger an icon retrieval.
