Pidgin stuck at "connecting" after while Windows 11

[Tomáš Růžička]

Hi Eion,
it seems that "pidgin.exe -f" fix the problem! Thank you. Can this be 
reported as bug to be fixed?

Cheers,
Tomas

Dne 14.06.2022 v 10:14 Eion Robb napsal(a):
> Hi Tomas,
>
> I've had similar struggles with Win11 - probably an updated API for 
> network availability in there somewhere.  As a workaround, I've edited 
> my Pidgin shortcut to run  "pidgin.exe -f" which makes Pidgin ignore 
> the online/offline status that Windows is reporting.
>
> Hope that helps you as much as it's helped me!
>
> Cheers,
> Eion
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 02:28, Tomáš Růžička <tom604 at seznam.cz> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     we are using Pidgin for long time but it seems that after upgrade
>     to W11
>     some computers have problem with connecting to ejabberd XMPP server.
>     Pidgin starts automatically with windows login but after some time
>     (minutes, hours it depends) it stuck in state "connecting" and it
>     never
>     finish. Once you switch to "offline" and "online" it is again
>     working.
>     Problem seems to show once you upgrade from W10 to W11 on some PC.
>     What
>     helped was to switch from onboard lan to USB lan. So the problem
>     could
>     be related to some eco/sleeping feature? What can we try to find
>     out the
>     problem? This also occurst on latest version 2.14.10.
>
>     Thank you
>
>     Tomas
>
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