Pidgin not showing in System tray

Ka-Hing Cheung khc at pidgin.im
Fri Jul 3 03:57:31 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:35:18AM -0700, yaip wrote:
> I have a Skype account and use Pidgin to talk to Skype users. So the system
> starts Skype and Pidgin so that I can chat with Skype users. Every once in a
> while, Pidgin starts without the icon showing in the system tray. So I can't
> right-click on it to do anything. I did a ctl-alt-del and ended Pidgin from
> task manager and then I restarted it. Still nothing. It only shows up in
> system tray if I reboot my PC (which is a pain).

If only rebooting can fix the problem, this sounds like a windows system tray
problem more than a pidgin problem.

-khc




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