Is there a way for Pidgin to stagger window placement when not using tabbed ims?

[Etan Reisner]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:18:52AM -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:28:51AM -0400, Greg S wrote:
> > > I prefer to not use tabbed IMs, bad experiences sending the wrong message to
> > > the wrong person. But is there a way for Pidgin to stagger each new IM
> > > window, instead of stacking them all on top of each other? Thank you.
> >
> > Pidgin assumes that the window manager will handle window placement.
>
> At least in older versions, it did indeed place windows directly on
> top of each other.  I thought we had convinced Sean that was a bad
> idea, though...
>
> Ethan

We did, except for in Windows where we know the users window manager is
unable to sanely handle this (largely because GTK+ goes back and forth
between two different versions of 'broken', or at least it used to).

    -Etan