No tray icon with Pidgin on 9.10

[Steve Woodruff]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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You have to enable the icon. It's been a while since I've used Pidgin,
so I don't remember the exact menus, but it should be the first tab in
your Preferences/Options/what-have-you menu. I believe you have to
select something like 'Show icon always' in your Preferences.

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