Google Talk Username

[Dave Warren]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:34:34 -0300, Pedro Mindlin <pmindlin at gmail.com>
was claimed to have wrote:

>Hi,
>
>whenever I use Google Talk through Pidgin, my username appears all weird in
>the chat window, and I can't find where to fix it:
>
>(16:53:12) friend: bla bla bla
>(16:53:36) pmindlin at gmail.com/B8144D90: bla bla bla
>           ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^

This is normal and isn't a bug or something to be fixed, it's an
artifact of the way XMPP works.

>How can I edit the way it displays my username?

I believe that if you change the "Local Alias" in the Modify Account
screen it will change how your name appears locally.