How to Change the Screen Name Colors in Aim 6
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 10:26 pm. 43 comments
Some people might not like the screen name colors in Aim 6, and may want it to be red and blue, or blue and green. Here’s a quick guide on how to change the colors of your screen name and to change the colors of other people’s screen name.
To change Your Screen Name colors in Aim 6
Navigate to the directory below. Depending on your Version of Aim. If you can’t find it, upgrade to the latest version of aim at aim.com
If you have Aim 6.8 Your Directory is:
C:\Program Files\AIM6\services\
imApp\ver6_8_10_1\content\im\default.css
- Open the File in Notepad
- Scroll down to .localname
- Next You will have to Find an HTML Color Value to input.
- Visit Colors, and select a color.
- Notice the 6 digit code combination at the top.
- This Code is what you will type under local name.
.localName {
font:12px Arial;
color:#D73306;
}
- Highlight over the Color Code. In this example it is #D73306
- Type the Color Code from the Website that you chose.
- Put a ‘#’ before the code and make sure there is a ‘;’ after your code
.localName {
font:12px Arial;
color:#000000;
}
- Press File > Save
To Change the Screen Name Color of the person you IM.
In default.css find any .remote name
.remoteName0 {
font:12px Arial;
color:#0F0595;
}
- Change the color by inserting a color value just like you did above.
Other .remoteName deal with the color of screen names in chatrooms. You can change any of these screen name colors the same way you did before. These colors will be given to people at random so do not expect to see much changes unless you drastically changed them all.
