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Idea #8783: Pidgin - have an option to start minimized to tray

Written by wladston the 18 May 08 at 22:50. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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That is for people who start pidgin automatically on boot time and always have to close the buddy list when the system boots.
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Written by wladston the 18 May 08 at 22:50.
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eapache wrote on the 19 May 08 at 00:32
If you minimize it to tray, then close it by right-clicking on the icon and selecting quit, it will start minimized next time.

white_noise wrote on the 19 May 08 at 08:22
This option is already available with the package pidgin-extprefs.
However, a bug seems to prevent pidgin to minimize to tray when started on login from the session startup list, as described here (including workaround): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=465590

bochecha wrote on the 19 May 08 at 21:31
This is totally a user preference issue and has nothing to do with Ubuntu or any distribution...

If you want it to start minimized, just configure it and it will. -_-'

eryksun wrote on the 30 May 08 at 07:14
bochecha:

I do not know if this is an Ubuntu/Gnome problem or a Pidgin problem, but it *is* a problem. The "Hide buddy list at startup" option of pidgin-extprefs works fine if I launch Pidgin from a script, but if I launch Pidgin directly from the session manager, the option is ignored.


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