This plugin removes the highlight flag from system messages. This works around a bug which was introduced with Pidgin 2.10.7 and leads to a highlighted IRC channel each time you join when you set the channel topic.
For the binary version, extract all the contents of
pidgin-unhighlight-system-messages in the ZIP file either to the installation
directory of Pidgin (typically C:\Program Files\Pidgin) or to your .purple
user directory (typically %APPDATA%\Roaming\.purple).
See below for how to compile the source code version into a binary ZIP file.
To install the plugin on Linux you need to extract a release tarball and compile it from source:
sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev
./configure
make
sudo make install
Note: By default the plugin will be installed to /usr/local. If you
installed Pidgin through your package manager, it is most likely installed into
/usr (i.e. which pidgin returns /usr/bin/pidgin). Use
./configure --prefix=/usr in this case.
Note: When you use the repository directly or one of those auto-generated
"Source code" archives, you need to run ./autogen.sh before running
./configure.
In order to build the plugin for Windows an already-compiled source tree of Pidgin is required. Please see the Pidgin for Windows Build Instructions for details.
After that you need to create a file named local.mak that points to the
Pidgin source tree, e.g.:
PIDGIN_TREE_TOP=$(PLUGIN_TOP)/../../pidgin-2.10.11
Now you can build the plugin:
make -f Makefile.mingw
We love patches. ❤️ Please fork the project, do your changes and make a pull request.
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