Regarding the display of chat text

[papul]

Hi,
I did as instructed but could not see the change. Both local and remote
names still appear on the left. I even restarted pidgin but did not see
the any change.



Eion Robb:
> Hi Papul,
> 
> I've been playing around with this for a bit, and normally you'd apply
> this as a GTK theme, but as a workaround you can edit the 'Local Alias'
> field for an account and insert a right-to-left marker character, like
> Inline images 1
> 
>  that flips the display around to look like
> Inline images 2
> and gets pretty close to the outcome you're looking for.  Works for
> group chats too:
> 
> Inline images 3
> 
> Cheers,
> Eion
> 
> 
> On 13 August 2017 at 06:43, papul <papul at danwin1210.me
> <mailto:papul at danwin1210.me>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     How do I make my friend's text appear on left of the chat window and
>     mine on the right. This is how most phone messaging apps show the chats
>     nowadays.
> 
>     Regard,
>     Papul
> 
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