Comment 20 for bug 879950

Hi guys,
Do you still have the problem with Pidgin? I think I’ve found the solution; it’s simple:

Go to Pidgin Preferences -> Interface -> System Tray Icon, and choose ALWAYS for “Show system tray icon”.
Now if you can set Pidgin as a startup application, there will be no problem with opening the buddy list. In this situation, I recommend you to UNCHECK “Use status from last exit at startup” in Preferences -> Status/Idle and preferably set it to offline.

(If you don’t set Pidgin as a startup application, you should click on the icon once to start the application – which shows a triangle beside the icon in the messaging menu – and click again to open the window.)

I tried more than 5 times on 12.04 and the window is shown every time without any problem.