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By default Gaim’s buddy list and icons are huge. I searched preferences to make them smaller and found nothing. I later found out all you need to do is go to your Buddies menu and uncheck Show Buddy Details.

From: Detyabozhye’s thread.
Note: these steps do not apply to the mx700 keyboard bundle. Check out the original thread for that.

1.sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
2.sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/19-local.rules (change gedit to editor of your choice)
3.Paste KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", SYSFS{../name}=="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse", NAME="input/event9"
4.Back up xorg settings. sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
5.Open up xorg.conf sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
6.Replace mouse section with

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
EndSection

6.Restart X, ctrl+alt+backspace