pidgin runs in background, can't see it in an X window

[tixetsal@…]

I am running Snow Leopard, and I can't find a prebuilt binary of pidgin, so I settled on this "package manager." I am new to MacPorts, so it is possible that I am missing something simple.

I installed MacPorts from a binary. I installed pidgin. Pidgin failed b/c of an issue building db46. I installed the Java Developers Package, and I was able to install pidgin.

I setup pidgin with all of my IM accounts, and it was working acceptably. The last time that I used it, I clicked on the little red X icon (in OS X) to close the X window. This doesn't stop pidgin from running in the background, so I killed the process.

The next time that I started pidgin, I got the usual (i saw this when the X window was visible) gripe:

Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!

It fires up the X11 (OS X) app, but it never creates a pidgin X window. If I

pro:~ shaun$ ps aux | grep -i 'pidgin'
shaun      443   0.0  0.0  2470384    364 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.00 pidgin
shaun      442   0.0  0.0  2470384    376 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.00 pidgin
shaun      438   0.0  0.5  2472160  22484 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.34 pidgin
shaun      444   0.0  0.0  2470868    400 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.00 pidgin

I can see that there are 4 processes running related to pidgin, but there is no way to view the X window.

If I spawn pidgin as root, I can again see the X window which walks you through account configuration, so I think that the solution is probably pretty simple and basic.

Can anyone please advise? I am not really a "mac guy," and I don't know much at all about MacPorts.

TIA