how can i close pidgin without signing out?

[Mark Doliner]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:13:56 -0400
> Phillip L <pleibrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to be able to close pidgin without signing out, are there any
>> plug-ins that will let me do this?
>
> Why?
>
> You can't do this with any of the official clients, how do you think a
> connection to the servers can be maintained when the client is closed?

Er, I think he probably means that he wants Pidgin to minimize to the
system tray when he clicks the close button.

Phillip: Try Tools --> Preferences --> Show system tray icon "Always"

--Mark