Hello Arjan,
Arjan Oosting wrote:
> I can not reproduce this bug, the "Hide buddy list at startup" option is
> working just fine here. Do you have the extended preference plugin
> enabled? Or do you have other plugins enabled (Maybe the "buddy list
> options" plugin?
The Extended Preferences plugin is enabled, no other plugins are
activated. I somehow suspect that my window manager (IceWM) is involved
in this issue. I start pidgin through an entry in ~/.icewm/startup
('[EMAIL PROTECTED] pidgin &'). If I exit pidgin and restart it manually,
the buddy list does not show up.
On debian-user-german, one more user reported this issue, I don't have
any more information about his configuration, though.
However, I somehow solved this issue now: I wanted to check if the same
problem exists if I use GNOME. I configured GNOME to start pidgin at the
beginning of the session, and the same problem showed up. Furthermore,
upon manual restarts, it wouldn't start minimized, either. I then
deactivated the plugin, shut down pidgin, restarted it, reactivated the
plugin, restarted pidgin again, to no avail.
Then, I logged out out of GNOME and restarted IceWM - and now, the buddy
list does not show at startup... I don't have any clue why it now works,
when it wouldn't before with exactly the same settings.
I'll check until the rest of the week if the problem doesn't show up
again and will close this bug after that.
Cheers,
Wolf
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