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You have to ensure gpg-agent is running before you start pidgin. "use-agent" should be in the file ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
Help on invoking gpg-agent: http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html
Ubuntu does this automatically