Before you create a conversation, you need to add it to the blist (buddy list, which is NOT a list of contacts, but something different). If you don't, pidgin has issues displaying the chat!
And a couple of others. I only found that because the Chatty dev was able to find this.
Even with that, it refuses to remember that you have a chat after closing pidgin. How to fix that? Well that is a great question....as I simply don't know.
https://pidgin.im/development/faq/
I can say first hand that the info in "How can I create a conversation with someone?" is flat out incorrect. Look here:
https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/matr...
Before you create a conversation, you need to add it to the blist (buddy list, which is NOT a list of contacts, but something different). If you don't, pidgin has issues displaying the chat!
https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/matr...
BUT, that will immediately SEGFAULT if you don't have functions such as:
https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/libm...
https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/libm...
And a couple of others. I only found that because the Chatty dev was able to find this.
Even with that, it refuses to remember that you have a chat after closing pidgin. How to fix that? Well that is a great question....as I simply don't know.