HEATfan, you're not late. The party's just getting started. Ro-Jaws, if you're running Pidgin in Whonix, you don't have to configure the networking with Tor/Privoxy at 127.0.0.1:9050. Just run it normally, with no proxy stuff, the Gateway automatically proxies it. If it still doesn't connect, it will probably because you're trying to access an onion address. You need to get on the Gateway and add this to the end of /etc/tor/torrc mapaddress 10.10.10.10 silcroadg3c3mtu6.onion Reload Tor: sudo /etc/init.d/tor reload Then in Pidgin set the server to 10.10.10.10 instead the onion address.