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3 id="set-custom-status">
6 <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
7 <link type="seealso" xref="change-status"/>
8 <link type="seealso" xref="status-icons"/>
10 Add, edit or delete personal messages for your status.
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13 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
14 <credit type="author">
15 <name>Jim Campbell</name>
16 <email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
18 <credit type="author">
19 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
20 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
23 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
28 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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34 <title>Set a custom message</title>
37 Sometimes you may want to set a custom message for your status, for example to let
38 people know that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time.
41 It is possible to set a custom message based on the different statuses available.
47 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
53 Select the status you want to add a custom message to. You have to select the one
54 identified with the label <gui>Custom Message</gui>.
59 Enter your custom message in the text box at the top of the window, and
60 press <key>Enter</key> to set the message.
65 If you want to set the custom message as a favorite, saving it in order to use it
66 again, click on the little heart on the right of the text box where you wrote your
70 If you do not do it, the custom message will not be available the next time you
71 use <app>Empathy</app>. It will be saved only for the current session.
76 <section id="edit-custom">
78 <title>Edit and remove a custom message</title>
83 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
89 Select <gui>Edit Custom Message</gui>.
96 To edit a custom message:
101 From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message
102 you want to edit and double-click on it.
107 Type the new custom message and press <key>Enter</key> to modify it.
114 To remove a custom message:
119 From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message you want
125 Click on the <gui>Remove</gui> button.
134 When finished, click on <gui>Close</gui>.
141 When you edit a custom message, it will not be set as the current
142 status message. You will need to select it from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window.