{"id":2291,"date":"2011-05-21T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t.motd.kr\/articles\/2291\/how-to-start-pidgin-minimized-or-always-start-pidgin-with-its-buddy-list-invisible"},"modified":"2022-12-28T01:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:44:41","slug":"how-to-start-pidgin-minimized-or-always-start-pidgin-with-its-buddy-list-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault.motd.kr\/wordpress\/posts\/2291\/how-to-start-pidgin-minimized-or-always-start-pidgin-with-its-buddy-list-invisible\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start Pidgin Minimized (or always start Pidgin with its buddy list invisible)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\">Pidgin<\/a> does not have an option that allows a user decide whether the Pidgin buddy list window starts minimized or not. It just remembers the state of the window when it quits, and restores the last window state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last window status is stored in <code>$HOME\/.purple\/prefs.xml<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>...\n&lt;pref name='pidgin'>\n  ...\n  &lt;pref name='blist'>\n  ...\n    &lt;pref name='list_visible' type='bool' value='0'\/> &lt;!-- 0: invisible, 1: visible -->\n    &lt;pref name='list_maximized' type='bool' value='0'\/> &lt;!-- 0: normal, 1: maximized -->\n  ,,,\n  &lt;\/pref>\n&lt;\/pref>\n...<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>When the <code>list_visible<\/code> property is set to <code>0<\/code>, you will see Pidgin minimizes its buddy list window into the system tray (or the notification area). How can we make sure it\u2019s always set to <code>0<\/code> when Pidgin updates it when it exits? Let\u2019s write a shell script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>#!\/bin\/bash\nperl -pi -e \"s\/pref name='(list_visible|list_maximized)' type='bool' value='&#91;1-9]'\/pref name='$1' type='bool' value='0'\/gi\" ~\/.purple\/prefs.xml\n\/usr\/bin\/pidgin &amp;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The first <code>perl<\/code> command searches the <code>list_visible<\/code> and <code>list_maximized<\/code> properties and replaces their values with <code>0<\/code> before Pidgin starts. Problem solved!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that I like this workaround. I still just can\u2019t believe there is no option about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pidgin does not have an option that allows a user decide whether the Pidgin buddy list window starts minimized or not. It just remembers the state of the window when it quits, and restores the last window state. 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