No tray icon with Pidgin on 9.10

[Liam Proven]

I've removed Empathy, which I don't much like, and installed the
latest Pidgin (2.6.5) from the project maintainers' PPA. Snag is, I
get no tray icon, so it's hard to control. From Google I see there may
be an issue with tray transparency but I'm not using transparency.

I'm on Ubuntu 9.10, x86-64 edition, fully current, on an Athlon X2
4800+ with 4GB RAM.

Is this normal? Anything I can do?

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