I thought Pidgin can be heading towards more user friendly wise to gain on the IM market shares. But years already, I still didn’t see very aggressive GUI improvement from Pidgin.

One of the problems, I’m still facing is I want to minimize the buddy list during start up. In Pidgin default setting or the command line, you could not any of this. But here is a way how to get it done in just 3 simple steps.

Step 1. Install pidgin-extprefs from Synaptic

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Minimize Pidgin during Startup