Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: pidgin
Sometimes, and it doesn't seem very predictable, the pidgin GUI fails to show
on the screen.
There's a "pidgin" process running on the machine. Am not sure if I'm visible
online at that stage.
Anyway, the fix is to go into ~/.purple/prefs.xml and change
"list_visible" from 0 to 1. It always seems to be 0 when this problem
occurs, and changing it to 1 fixes it.
You have to kill the pidgin process first, as it re-writes the file on
exit, so kill pidgin, edit prefs.xml, change list_visible from 0 to 1,
save the file, start pidgin. Works fine - the GUI appears.
In a note to myself, I also mentioned changing "show_empty_groups" to 0
- I haven't seen that at 1 recently, so not sure if that was a red
herring.
Anyway, it's setting list_visible from 0 to 1 which makes the GUI
reappear and everything work fine again
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 9 14:30:52 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.0-0ubuntu2~hardy1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686
** Affects: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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GUI doesn't show when list_visible is 0
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295961
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