Marilyn, Per Daniel's email:
1. Right click the pidgin icon in the system tray. 2. Click "Plugins" 3. Scroll down towards the bottom, click "Windows Pidgin Options" 4. Double-click "Windows Pidgin Options" 5. Unclick "Dockable Buddy List" -Tres - [email protected] On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Daniel Atallah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Marilyn Montgomery < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have a Dell Latitude laptop using Windows 7, and have it plugged into > a over-sized external monitor for easier viewing. > > > > > > > > I have used Pidgin for years, and to start the program each weekday > morning, I would double-click on my Pidgin shortcut icon on my Desktop. > The software would then display the chat rooms that I have set for > AutoJoin, and then a minute or two later, the Buddy List would appear on > the right side of my monitor (overlayed over existing Desktop icons). The > Buddy List window always had the standard Minimize, Maximize, and Close > buttons in its upper right-hand corner, and I would always minimize the > List to my Status bar at the bottom of the screen so that I could access it > as needed during the day. > > > > > > > > Recently, I had to disconnect my laptop from the external monitor so > that I could take the laptop down to the office. When I brought it home > and re-attached it to the external monitor, the start-up process suddenly > changed. Now when I double-click on the Pidgin icon on my desktop in the > morning, the chat rooms appear as expected, but the Buddy List no longer > sits on top of existing Desktop icons, it shoves them over to the left and > far left of my screen, and the buttons in the upper right-hand corner have > changed. Now I get only a Close icon (a very small one) -- the Minimize > and Maximize buttons are gone. > > > > > > > > The only workaround that I’ve found is to close the Buddy List, then > re-open it using the Pidgin icon in the Sys Tray. The Minimize, Maximize, > and Close buttons appear normally in the upper right-hand corner of the > List, but it still pushes any underlying Desktop icons over to the left or > far left when it opens. > > > > > > > > I can’t find any settings related to this in the Preferences. How can I > fix this? It’s very annoying to have to move my Desktop icons back into > place each morning. > > > I think the behavior that you're describing is caused by the "Dockable > Buddy List" checkbox in the "Windows Pidgin Options" plugin. > > -D > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >
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