THANK GOD I'm not the only one with this problem. Confirmed here too. I have sound on the first message. To activate that tick "message received begins conversation" in the sound tab in Pidgin's preferences. NO OSD NOTIFICATION no matter what I do though.
I was pulling my hair out over this for the past 24 hours... lol -- The first IM message from a buddy does not launch a notification bubble https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363108 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs