pidgin encription plugin disables slashexec plugin

I have found the same bug.

Hi there, Thanks for reporting this bug
By the shell plugin, do you mean the "/exec" plugin?

yes

Is this still an issue for you? What Ubuntu version do you use? Thank you for telling us!

it's a 5yo bug! there's no way i can test this anymore

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.12.0daily12.12.05-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.12.0daily12.12.05-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * debian/control:
    - Update Vcs-Bzr
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 2905 (bootstrap)
    - Hide launcher tooltip once shortcut overlay appears (LP: #1035860)
    - Update shortcut overlay design (LP: #1049601)
    - Don't cut off shadow on launcher icon drag window (LP: #765715)
    - Provide more immediate feedback when clickong on launcher (LP: #893140)
    - Decorate spread windows in switcher (LP: #838222)
    - Make sure to initialize a variable before it can be used (LP: #1073516)
    - Fix FTBFS due to BAMF API change (LP: #1077937)
    - Run gtest during build (LP: #133637)
    - Make shopping lens test more robust (LP: #1077131)
    - Fix some random autopilot test failures (LP: #1078448)
    - Fix autopilot tests for details mode (LP: #1073892)
    - Fix autopilot tests for indicator-session (LP: #1075350)
    - Fix autopilot tests for non-English locales (LP: #1075898)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/control:
    - adding libgtest-dev and google-mock build-dep now that there are in main
      (LP: #1076763)
    - add libunity-core -> unity-common dep (LP: #1079132)
    - do not have unity-common dep on compiz-gnome: the migration code is only
      ran if compiz-gnome is installed, but compiz-gnome is pulled by compiz
      directly. We don't care if the migration code isn't executed.

  [ bschaefer ]
  * Ported to nux 4.0

  [ Ricardo Salveti de Araujo ]
  * Doesn't need to depend on gcc 4.6 anymore (LP: #1044836)

  [ Nick Dedekind ]
  * Previews loading more than 454 lines of description text crash Unity
    (LP: #1066788)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * unity::TimeUtil::TimeDelta returns an int value which overflows
    after 24 days of uptime (LP: #806248)
  * Top panel "tooltip" is gone (regression) (LP: #1085045)
  * Dash - Implement *overlay scrollbars* in Dash. Existing scrollbars
    are too thin to grab on to. (LP: #608124)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Dash - Regression: Clicking between filter label and 'All' button no
    longer toggles filter label (LP: #1080534)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * libunity-core fails without the schemas from unity-common (LP:
    #1079132)

  [ Manuel de la Pena ]
  * There is no common ui element that behaves like a url link (LP:
    #1067705)

  [ Automatic PS uploader ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 2956
 -- Automatic PS uploader <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:27:29 +0000