Quoting Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos(a)gmail.com>:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Aldrich
<jmaldrich(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
[snip]
> I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a problem where if I
change my status to
> "away" it freezes out the keyboard and won't let me type anything until
I
> close Pidgin and start it back up.
[snip]>>
you might look at pidgin...
Umm... I think you missed in my original post where I said I tried it,
but I have to shut it down and bring it back up if I want to set an
"away" message and then come back and use it again. :D