connection dies

[phobos at rootme.org]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:53:18PM +0300, moeedsalam at gmail.com wrote 1.3K bytes in 24 lines about:
: I have pidgin configured with tor settings, and i can see that it is
: connected in the network map. However, if i leave my acct online for a few
: hours, it does not appear on the network map. Actually no connections appear
: if i have not been surfing. I have to manually log off from my acct on
: pidgin and then log in again, and then i see it forming new connections and
: then it connects to my acct  again.

Odd.  I can't replicate this.  My connections via pidgin to various IM
accounts show up in Vidalia's circuit window all the time.

Do you restart vidalia but not tor at times while using pidgin?

-- 
Andrew