AIM Display Names

Coolnat2004 · Post by **Coolnat2004** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:27 am

Okay guys, this has me totally stumped, so I'm going to ask all of you knowledgeable folk right now.

I have a person on my buddy list, who I have set an alias of "Gable". His actual AIM screenname is the usual with letters and numbers and all that good stuff. When I hover over his name on my contact list, it says "Display Name: Gabl". Notice the missing "e". Now, when I logged onto my PC running Trillian Pro 3, his name appears on my contact list as "Gabl". So, I'm guessing this is a new thing in AIM? Display names?

If it's possible to use Adium in any way to make a display name like this, preferably like MSN's display names, it would be awesome. The reason being, is that you can broadcast a message to everyone on your buddy list without disturbing them or directly talking to them. It's just awesome.

Let me know what's going on with this, guys. Thanks!

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:19 pm

It’s in the Personal pane of your account.

And you can get info on the contact to change their display name on your computer.

Coolnat2004 · Post by **Coolnat2004** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:40 pm

No, this is not the same as an alias. the "Alias" is set to "Gable" but when you hover their name (which is set to be only the alias) it says "Display name: Gabl".

kckid · Post by **kckid** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:01 am

I have the same problem with one of my friends, she has an AIM display name too for some reason, I never cared to ask, I was just curious to see it there.

DoeoJ · Post by **DoeoJ** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:34 am

Not sure if this is the same situation, but i've noticed with some buddies on my list, an alias will somehow carry itself over from one program to the next... somehow being stored with the contact information on AOL's servers. I first noticed this when i used a ncurses program called naim.. but before it I used a much older version of gaim in gentoo Linux.. Somehow the aliases i set in gaim got stored remotely and they've been with the screennames ever since...