Windows 7 – Keyboard Shortcut to Start Calculator

Here's your best bet, which is what I do:

• Use the Pidgin Hotkeys plugin to assign a global hotkey to the buddy list, use that to bring it up.
• Start typing the name of the contact, and pidgin will highlight the name in the buddy list.
• Hit enter, instant message window pops up, start typing your message.

Once you start using it, you'll wonder why you did anything else.

Lsh and Rsh do perform left and right shifts, respectively. After pressing the button, you need to specify the number of binary digits you would like to shift the number. See "What do all the buttons do?" here for more info.