Show system tray icon: Always (doesn't work in Unity)

[Lonnie Lee Best]

In my pidgin preferences, I have "Show system tray icon" set to "Always". Yet, in Unity (Ubuntu 12.10) the tray icon is only displayed some of the time and is not visible most of the time.

As a work around, I just "Lock to Launcher" the pidgin icon. I might come to prefer this method over having a tray icon, but thought I would report this behavior of pidgin not honoring that preference in the Unity desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 3 11:59:17 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (36 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)