Workaround: Force Unity to show pidgin icon in tray. At example, get current list of displayed icons:
$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype']
and set new list with Pidgin $ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'Pidgin']"
Workaround:
Force Unity to show pidgin icon in tray.
At example, get current list of displayed icons:
$ gsettings get com.canonical. Unity.Panel systray-whitelist rame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype']
['JavaEmbeddedF
and set new list with Pidgin Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbedded Frame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'Pidgin']"
$ gsettings set com.canonical.