from '0' to '1' also brought the window back. I guess this is a Gnomism, Pidgin isn't expected to work without some supporting things running alongside it, panels or whatever, so it starts up "minimized", with no way of opening the running applicaiton without a panel or dock or something.
Or, just changing the
<prefs name='blist'> [...]
<pref name='list_visible' type='bool' value='0'/>
from '0' to '1' also brought the window back. I guess this is a Gnomism, Pidgin isn't expected to work without some supporting things running alongside it, panels or whatever, so it starts up "minimized", with no way of opening the running applicaiton without a panel or dock or something.