Well, the title says it all. I've been trying to get emoticons working, but they don't show up at all (instead being replaced by grey boxes).

It's driving me batty because I have one friend in particular who communicates primarily in emoticons. He does use custom emoticons though, so that may be the culprit.

Anyway, does anyone have any ideas as to what could be happening? If not, could you recommend an alternative messenger program that handles MSN?

I'm using Slackware 12.2 (freshly installed last week for what it's worth).


Edit: I just tested it with another friend and his emoticons went through - I have no idea why this would be the case.

Pigin - Kopete - aMSN There's 3, there are plenty more.

Thanks for the recommendations. I tried all three and none of them would work properly with custom emoticons (the normal built-in ones seemed to work fine though).

What do you mean 'none of them would work properly'? I use Kopete with custom emoticons (ultimanimatated_v1) and they work just fine.

I mean none of my friends' custom emoticons show up. If I knew why that was happening I wouldn't be asking for help.

Fine, I ask for clarification and you decide to be shirty about it. You'll get no more stupid questions from me!

I didn't mean to sound shirty, I'm just frustrated.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

http://img3.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whexample.png

Notice the faint boxes at the bottom of the conversation next to "nd" and under "vc ta quieto hj"? Normally there'd be an emoticon there. I have no idea why this is happening.