I guess I solved it (for my particular problem, anyway).
if you're not going to use empathy, you have to FIRST disable your accounts, even if you're going to uninstall it afterwards.
pidgin now works just fine with all status changes.
I guess I solved it (for my particular problem, anyway).
if you're not going to use empathy, you have to FIRST disable your accounts, even if you're going to uninstall it afterwards.
pidgin now works just fine with all status changes.