Maintain Same Pidgin Settings Across All Users
Copying profiles from one user to another:
Most of the applications on Linux, maintain separate profiles for each user. Similarly incase of IM clients like “Pidgin” each user maintains different profile. Suppose if you create a dummy user account or want to maintain same IM profile ( same accounts etc ), across all users, here are couple of tricks.
The Pidgin profiles are maintained under ~/.purple/ directory. Copying entire directory contents to your ~/.purple will allow you to maintain same profile across different users.