It makes no difference whether the frontmost window belongs to Pidgin, XChat, Skype, Firefox, or OpenOffice. As long as it's not the window and tab for the other conversation, the normal notification should appear for that other conversation. I've corrected the wiki page.
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Notifications should not appear when you are in a chat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342420 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs