Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> writes:
I suspect that you are referring to panels (top and bottom) but not
status/system trays which in KDE is a separate widget. I don't know
about GNOME because I never use it but it probably is an optional item
in a panel.
There is an area on the lower gnome panel that icons for unmapped (in
the X sense) programs tend to show up in. All the programs other than
pidgin were indeed there.
It did turn out to be a problem with the state stored in ~/.purple .
Moving that directory aside caused pidgin to appear onscreen again the
next time I started it.
-wolfgang
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