an IM client that's not totally broken?

[sktsee]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:46:05 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On 03/29/2010 06:53 PM, Gmail wrote:
>> Hi,
>> After you start Pigin , right click the panel application button and
>> select "always on top" this tip should help for now.
> 
> It does help, but it's not something I want to do every time I launch
> the application. The IM software itself should do it.
> 
> Also, there seems to be a weird interaction with focus-follows-mouse and
> the IM discussion windows tends to "steal" the characters I'm typing
> (lots of "sorry, wrong window" apologies I need to send).
> 
> This is what the ideal behavior should be:
> 
> When there's a new message coming in, that starts a new discussion, pop
> a new window on top of everything else, but don't steal focus.
> 
> When a new message is coming in within an existing discussion, raise the
> discussion window but don't steal focus.
> 
> All this must be configurable within the application.

The package pidgin-extprefs contains a plugin called "Message 
Notification" that I believe will allow you to configure message pop ups 
like you talking about. 

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sktsee