David Chmelik spake unto us the following wisdom:
Following is the display bug, which has been reported again this year,
but I see no fix listed for.
$ pidgin
(pidgin:4199): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion
N.P.J spake unto us the following wisdom:
is it possible to hide my i.p when using irc on pidgin?
That is a function of the IRC network, not your IRC client. You need
to look into the procedure for obtaining a cloak or user mask (or
whatever your server calls it) in the server documentation.