an IM client that's not totally broken?

[John DeCarlo]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>wrote:

> Went back to Pidgin, which is slightly better, but still broken. New
> messages are minimized by default. I am still missing communications,
> people may be thinking I ignore them. :-( All this due to a stupid
> policy of minimizing new messages.
>
> How can I modify this setting and allow new IM messages to pop-up as
> normal windows? (NOT minimized)
>

What are your Pidgin settings under the Interface tab (Tools ->
Preferences)?

It may be that you need a newer Pidgin than comes with 9.10.

Try going to  http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/  and adding the PPA, see
what you get.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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