2009/1/30 suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com:
I ran pidgin too. However it didn't go as smoothly. Most of the time it didn't appear on the dock or even a window for that matter. I tried running it from,
- the 'Run' in the right click menu on the desktop,
- from xterm.
However, it had worked the last time I had logged in. Kinda strange I guess.
Yes, that is strange, it has never happened to me. However, I do start my pidgin in offline mode (ie: the -n (or --nologin) option), so don't know whether pidgin would wait for NM to connect and then go online before showing the applet or the window.
If only I could get pidgin to work consistently ... but its a minor hitch I guess.
as an update for the sake of records, running the docker as, "docker -wmaker" fixed all my problems. :)