I love the new libnotify notifications in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, but don’t really want my IM messages popping up on the top right of the screen — especially at work.
So how do you get Pidgin to just quietly blink in your system tray like it used to?
Pidgin uses libnotify as a plugin to make those notification happens, and you can turn it off like any other. Go to Tools->Plugins and find “Libnotify Popups” and uncheck it.
Then to get your old notifications back check the “Message Notification” plugin. Then go to Tools->Preferences and set “Show system tray icon” to Always on the Interface tab. Then you can right-click on your Pidgin icon in the system tray and check “Blink on New Message” so you at least know when someone is trying to chat with (distract) you.
Thank you!