Pidgin stuck at "connecting" after while Windows 11

[Gary Kramlich]

What protocols are you all seeing this on? I've only done minimal
testing on windows 11 but i haven't seen this yet.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 7:49 AM Tomáš Růžička <tom604 at seznam.cz> wrote:
>
> 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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