# 3.3 Nicotine+ Getting Around: Private chat

Private chat window consist of a few parts.

### 1. username tabs

- Every user you having private chat with has a tab. When you chat with more than one user you can switch between them by clicking on the tab

### 2. Private chat itself

- That's the Private chat itself. Your lines are colored in blue and the other persons coversation is black
- Every message is shown this way: day month date hour minutes sec year [username] message (example: Thu Jun 15 17:13:46 2006 [user_name])

### 3. Message box

- There you can typ whatever you want to say and hit enter

### 4. Log

- Saves the conversation

### 5. Close

- Closes chat session

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