Chat client suggestion

[TheLegend]

What is a chat client I can use that will allow me to maneuver between
away (orange) status and available (green) status as I choose? Anyone
know of any? I tried Pidgin but it doesn't allow invisibility status,
which I want to keep as an option.

[Ryan Morehart]

Uh, are you sure pidgin doesn't let you go invisible? Mine does.

Ryan

[TheLegend]

Pdgin lets you be invisible in gmail chat?? Mine won't! Do you know
if you have a certain version of Pidgin? Also, sometimes when I set
Pidgin to away status, it doesn't change my status as shown in gmail
chat.

On Oct 27, 9:31 pm, "Ryan Morehart" <moreh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Uh, are you sure pidgin doesn't let you go invisible? Mine does.
>
> Ryan
>

[Ryan Morehart]

Hm... I did some testing and it looks like you're right. It only shows
the invisible option because I'm also signed into AIM. Setting it to
invisible leaves Google talk on available.

If you're only using Google talk, then the official Google Talk client
(http://www.google.com/talk/) should be able to do it just fine.

Ryan

[Ryan Morehart]

Yeah, but even accessing Google chat only through Pidgin it still left
my status alone. If I disable AIM in Pidgin it no longer even gives me
the option to go invisible.

Ryan

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM, bkennelly <bken...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, Pidgin allows you to be invisible in google chat. The catch is
> that, with XMPP, you can be signed into many chat clients, and each
> can have its own status. So, if you are logged in to Pidgin and Gmail
> chat, you may be visible in Gmail chat, even when invisible from
> Pidgin.