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pidgin package

Cannot put chat window over buddy list

Asked by Brett Howard

Binary package hint: pidgin

I seem unable to place a chat window over the buddy list. When moving a chat window over to the area where the buddy list is it goes behind it. This is running compiz w/ the ATI drivers installed via the restricted drivers nugget (or whatever its called now). Running Hardy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 3 21:22:58 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.0-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/.Modelsim
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-14-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #211662.

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Brett Howard (brett-livecomputers) said : 		#1
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) said : 		#2

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

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Brett Howard (brett-livecomputers) said : 		#3

This screenshot taken in 8.10 running Pidgin 2.5.2.

Plugins Running:
DBUS Example
Extended Preferences
History
Hotkeys
Libnotify Popups
Nautilus Integration
Pidgin-Encryption

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Brett Howard (brett-livecomputers) said : 		#4

Just looked at that picture again and I notice that the buddy list has focus. Even if the chat window is clicked on and given focus the buddy list remains on top as is pictured.

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Brett Howard (brett-livecomputers) said : 		#5

Should also state another difference from the original bug that I submitted. I'm now running the open source ATI drivers yet still running compiz. I just did a quick test and metacity does not fix the problem. I don't have my Metacity set to do compositing.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) said : 		#6

the user list is set a sticky either using the wm or an option, that's not a bug

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Brett Howard (brett-livecomputers) said : 		#7

I deeply apologize gentlemen I recently figured out my issue when I upgraded to 9.04. Usually when I install Pidgin I simply copy over my .purple directory and drop in all the plugins that I use before even opening it for the first time. This time I just copied over .purple and then opened the app. At this point in time all worked how I wanted it to. Then I went back and installed all my plugins and restarted it. The problem then came back.. I later narrowed it down to the hotkeys plugin.

So this is *NOT* a bug in pidgin its a bug in the pidgin hotkeys plugin.