I see this issue on Lucid. I have not noticed it in Karmic or Intrepid if I remember right. Disabling sounds worked for me as well -
Going to: Tools | Preferences | Sounds and setting the method to "No Sounds" resolved it for me. -- pidgin freezes while typing a message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162701 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