Facebook username too long in Pidgin

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Published on 2012-03-20T20:24:17Z Indexed on 2012/03/20 23:39 UTC
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Currently when chatting in pidgin my name that is displayed whenever I send a chat is too long and makes reading the chat difficult and sometimes confusing.

Is there a way to make the display name for all of the different protocols be something shorter like a nickname or something?

An example my facebook reads like this

(01:14:16 PM) [email protected]/df747fe6_4BBB0493F66AE:

and I want it to look like this

(01:14:16 PM) username:

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