Comment 10 for bug 879950

Still 100% reproducible after an upgrade to 12.04.

Workaround:
1) Launch pidgin and close it immediately (eg. using right-click on its icon in the unity bar)
2) Launch it again, and cycle through window (ctrl-tab) to reach the buddy list.

A do that for a year now... Pidgin is used by a *lot* of people and this bug is as old as Unity itself, a fix would be great.