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Ubuntu Ambiance Style Empathy Messaging Theme

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 23, 2011

“One of the great features of Ubuntu’s default instant messaging
application ‘Empathy’ is the support for ‘Adium Message
Styles’.

These let you theme your messaging window in a variety of ways.
The only draw back is that most of the ready-made Message Styles
available online are made for Adium (the Mac OS X version of
‘Pidgin’) and don’t always work well in Empathy on Linux.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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