Chat not blinking

[Daniel Atallah]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:17, Billy Gilbert<billy at billygilbert.net> wrote:
> I was curious if this is a legitimate bug, or a setting, or intended
> functionality.  I frequently use chats within pidgin but whenever there is a
> new message posted to the chat, the line in the task bar does not blink to
> notify a new message has arrived.  I can see how that would be annoying in a
> lot of cases if it blinked each time, but we frequently do small chats (3 or
> 4 people) and it would be nice to have that notification.

Chats don't request urgency by default (as you noted, for the most
common use case, this would probably be really annoying).

You can use the "Message Notification Plugin" to make Pidgin behave
the way you want it to.

-D