pidgin-blinklight binary package in Ubuntu Bionic ppc64el

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

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