This plugin for Pidgin will blink your laptops when you get new messages, so you notice them even if the conversation window ist not up front and you don't have or don't see the window list. . To use this with an Thinkpad's ThinkLight, you need to have the ibm-acpi kernel module loaded. . To use this with an ASUS laptop, you need to have the asus_acpi kernel module loaded.
