Quoting Jack Craig jack.craig.aptos@gmail.com:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Aldrich jmaldrich@yahoo.com wrote:
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I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a problem where if I change my status to "away" it freezes out the keyboard and won't let me type anything until I close Pidgin and start it back up.
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you might look at pidgin...
Umm... I think you missed in my original post where I said I tried it, but I have to shut it down and bring it back up if I want to set an "away" message and then come back and use it again. :D