Pidgin/ejabberd

[Erik Max Francis]

Robert Runyon wrote:
> I am using pidgin on my home network with ejabberd as the server.  In 
> conversation windows my userid appears as Robert at server / 
> 1182838493838483882.  This number does not appear to the person I am 
> talking to, just in my window. However, the same thing happens in 
> reverse on the receiving end.  Their userid appears with the number in 
> their window.
> 
> Is there a way to stop this?  So that just "Robert at server" appears in my 
> conversation window?

The number you're seeing, I believe, is an automatically-generated 
resource ID for your XMPP client connection since you didn't specify 
one.  It's there so that you can login from multiple locations 
simultaneously; you can manually set it to whatever you want in the 
Accounts > Modify ... dialog.  (It's usually chosen to be the name of 
your client, or the location of where you're connecting from.)

If you want your name to show up as something else entirely, then as was 
said, go ahead and change your alias for that account.

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