Empathy is a rather nice IM client and I like the included themes, but I don't see how to move my tabs in my conversation windows to the bottom of the window instead of the top.. any ideas?
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As far as I know it can only be done by modifying and recompiling the source.
It's looks like a trivial change, but you will need some minimum background in programming. This is the important file. In the 2051 line they create the notebook. You will need to add a line like this afterwards:
gtk_notebook_set_tab_pos (GTK_NOTEBOOK (priv->notebook), GTK_POS_BOTTOM);
Note that I didn't test it, it will likely work, but...

Javier Rivera
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They are not likely to accept this in trunk just because you like more the tabs in the bottom ;). Anyway, maybe, not sure, don't take this as a promise, if I get bored (only if) in the weekend I'll made a deb for you. – Javier Rivera Dec 17 '10 at 07:51
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I don't think you can do this with the default Empahty package from Ubuntu Maverick.
There's nothing like this in the menus, and the schema installed:
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Empathy.gschema.xml
does not mention anything like this.

Lucian Adrian Grijincu
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Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn
combination to cycle between tabs. – theTuxRacer Dec 11 '10 at 03:53