This seems to be a known issue in pidgin (see http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13867) with the new proxy mechanism in Gnome 3.
** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #13867 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13867 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878032 Title: Pidgin reports "Proxy configuration program was not found" after 11.10 upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/878032/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
