How to stop running pidgin at logins and disable window hiding feature?

Question

Every time I login into my desktop, pidgin start behind, and sometimes it's annoying me - e.g. when I'm not connected to Internet or when I don't want to be on-line - I check startup application list and there's no pidgin listed.

another thing that is very annoying is hiding window feature or what ever it called.
assume that you're using MusicTracker plug-in, your status is Busy and you're chatting with someone. when music change, status will change, and then buddy-list will disappear and chat window will minimize. Buddy-list is not important but minimizing chat window when you're chatting is annoying, Is there any way to make pidgin stop that?

Answer 1

Try this,

• Close all running applications then go to System → Preferences → Startup Applications.
• Click on the Options tab, check Automatically remember running applications when logging out.
  
• Close and reboot.

NOTE:

• If you want your windows to stop minimizing when your away status changes, then Goto Tools → Plugins and then uncheck Iconify on Away plugin.
• Alternatively you could stop using musictracker so your status stops periodically changing.