Here it happened the same.
In my case, I discovered this bug was triggered by my MSN account
having enabled the option "New mail notifications".
As a workaround, I just disabled it. This solved half of the problem,
because I couldn't change the window width using the mouse. To restore
the window width I had to edit the file ~/.gaim/prefs.xml and change
the width in the following section:
<pref name='blist'>
<pref name='show_buddy_icons' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='show_empty_groups' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='show_idle_time' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='show_offline_buddies' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='list_visible' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='list_maximized' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='sort_type' type='string'
value='alphabetical'/>
<pref name='x' type='int' value='40'/>
<pref name='y' type='int' value='76'/>
<pref name='width' type='int' value='1466'/>
<pref name='height' type='int' value='551'/>
<pref name='tooltip_delay' type='int'
value='500'/>
</pref>
to something more sensible:
<pref name='width' type='int' value='466'/>
Hope this is helpful.
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buddy windows is wide three to four times the desktop and impossible to resize
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108468
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