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This apparently can happen in a number of situations when using Pidgin under Linux but for me it happens while using Pidgin integrated with "pidgin-conversation-integration@kageenshi.com" Gnome 3 shell extension. The exact sequence for me is that I get an IM Notification via the Shell (as expected) and via a series of mouse clicks in the notification area I am able to bring up the Pidgin Chat Window. However, I am unable to type into the chat window as it won't accept keyboard input. The solution is to right-click the chat window then click in "Input Methods" "System (Simple)" even though this setting already appears to be checked. This immediately fixes the issue and it stays fixed (until possibly the next  chat message is notified). Apparently other users have reported the same symptom with Pidgin but under different circumstances but for me it only occurs in the setting of the aforementioned Gnome 3 shell extension. Addendum: This is being...

My preupgrade system was a dual boot (linux/win7) x86_64 system with a couple of hardware RAID arrays running FC14 with grub as the bootloader.  Graphics hardware is fairly modern and should not by itself pose a problem for Gnome3. There are separate partitions for /home, /boot as well as a couple of others. I mostly relied on the Fedora Project preupgrade Wiki . Used Software Update to update to latest FC14. Backed up /home , /etc , and some of /var to an external drive. sudo yum install preupgrade su; preupgrade (choose FC16 Verne as the upgrade dest) ---At this point everything seemed to go well as many new packages were downloaded etc. but significantly there was no /boot/upgrade directory created and /boot/grub/menu.lst did not have an entry for the upgrade kernel.  Ran preupgrade again --- now things are good. Reboot and boot into the upgrade kernel -- this takes a while as more stuff gets downloaded and the system is modified to support the new distro. P...