Smileys, Smileys, Emoticons

Have you ever been wondering how to get more smileys/emoticons to express yourself in IM sessions? I don’t know about you but me. Once I fell in love with Pidgin, a cute FOSS solution for instant messaging, I realized that the answer is just beyond a little hack. So I worked it out.

I mixed up all emoticons available in Pidgin & created a smiley theme named “Soup”. Then gave it to my mad friends who I waste time on IM with. Now we all having the fun & complications of a-hell-lot-of smileys :). I’m sure we’ll go back to the default theme soon but I thought sharing would help 3 more phreaks out there.

So here’s how to get it done.
1. Download soup.zip file HERE & extract it.
2. copy it in to Pidgin Smileys directory

Windows    > C:\Program Files\Pidgin\pixmaps\pidgin\emotes
GNU/Linux  > /home/chanux/.purple/smileys (replace chanux with your user name)
or > /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emotes

3. Select the theme “Soup” from Tools>Preferences>Smiley themes on Pidgin.

The theme is made to work with Yahoo protocol. If you are using AIM,MSN,QQ or ICQ…..
1.Open the file ‘theme’ located in extracted ’soup’ folder with your favorite text editor.
2.Find [Yahoo] & replace it with the name of your IM protocol.
ex- [AIM] , [MSN] , [QQ] , [ICQ]

If you feel you are missing Good old yahoo default smileys Get Y!old theme HERE.

Update : New version of Y!old, which works well with new versions of Pidgin is, Y!Emos is HERE.

PS- After all these things the smiley window takes 2-3 seconds to open.
I think you can understand that your friends must have SOUP installed & selected to have the fun.

Disclaimer- Dumb me & all my dumb friends did this & it works just fine. If you are dumber enough to get problems with this just don’t try this or any kind of hacks. Any kind of a damage you do to your system trying this hack happens only because you are an extreme fool. SO don’t blame me. Go infront of a mirror instead. :twisted:

Firefox: Almost full screen

Here I am, again with a nice Firefox tweak.

Before you start to try this tut out…

you must know how to

• Install Firefox extensions
• play with userChrome.css

If You dunno how to do these stuff first try my earlier Firefox tut > HERE <

you must have these stuff

• “Personal menu” Firefox extension (Or “Tiny Menu” With “Menu edit”) [Learn more of these,here]
• “Toggle search” extension (If you like)
• “Stop or Reload” Extension (If you like)
• These lines in your userChrome.css file

/* Remove Home button */
#home-button { display: none; }

/*Remove magnifying glass button from search box*/
.search-go-button-stack { display: none !important; }

/* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement: */
#throbber-box { display: none !important; }

/* Remove Go button of searchbar */
#go-button-stack, .search-go-button-stack { display: none !important; }

• A working brain inside your head. (I don’t have any links to download this :lol: )

OK, Now you are ready to ‘Firefox: Almost full screen’.

1. First Copy the lines I’ve given in to your userChrome.css file, Install the extensions I’ve mentioned & restart Firefox to see what you have you done. If you don’t see any change just try another restart. (If that also doesn’t help, just
forget this tut ;) )

2. Right-Click on ‘Menus Toolbar’ or ‘Navigation’ Toolbar & choose customize.Now you can drag & drop items in those toolbars. Now you can drag in-out icons between toolbars & ‘customize toolbars’ window & arrange icons as you wish. Find Personal menu Icon inside ‘customize toolbars’ window & drag & drop it on Navigation toolbar.Now Restart ‘fox again.

3. Now tweak “Personal Menu” extension.

You can add Only the menu’s you like;in to your personal menu. If you are not sure what you really need, just add all default stuff in to your personal menu.
[Tools > Addons > Extensions > Personal Menu > Options > Edit menu/Others.]Now you can find all Menus in handy personal menu button.

4. Right-Click on Menus toolbar & uncheck Menus toolbar option.

[!!! Check & recheck for Personal Menu button on Navigation toolbar & make -sure that all Menus you need are inside it, before you do this.]

5. Here’s the last step. Press F11 on Function keys & see what happens. If you do ‘Firefox: Almost full screen’ You are done.

 

Here’s My Firefox Window After this!

Important!
There’s a little risk doing this, if you are a complete new user for Firefox or new to these little Hacking tricks. So It’s better to use a different Firefox Profile to try Hacks on. Here’s How to deal with Firefox Profiles.
[Creating a shortcut to Profile manager worked well for me]

This tut is for windoze users. Mac & Linux users have the Idea now; so you can find how to do this on your platform, I dunno how to do this on other plats.
[ I still can't configure my modem in Linux & have no enough time to play with. So still no surfing with Linux ] Forgive me for the ignorance, my Linux/Mac friends :) You can link your Mac/Linux tut here.just comment or mail me on chanux at gmail dot com

Feel Free comment you Ideas,Problems.