[Daniel Atallah]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 14:04, Dan Schwartz <DanS at spryware.com> wrote:
> I’m a new Pidgin user having migrated over from Trillian.  I’m setup in such
> a way that my multiple conversations show up as tabs in a single window.
> When I get my first IM of the day, the conversation opens up and is the
> primary focus on my Window 7 laptop.  However, once open, and once I have
> something else as the primary focus I often miss new IMs.  They flash in the
> status bar at the bottom of my screen but they don’t pop up as the primary
> window.  Is there some way I can change that?  I can’t figure it out.  I
> want all new IMs to end up on top of all other windows so I see it.

The Message Notification plugin can be configured to do what you're
trying to accomplish.

-D