Windows – keyboard shortcut to open the list of networks

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.

This is an older question, so the solution I'm about to describe may not have been available back when this was first asked.

In OpenSUSE 12.3 (KDE), one can do the following:

• Alt+F2, type "systemsettings" and hit Enter.

• Click on "Shortcuts and Gestures", select "Global Keyboard Shortcuts" from the pane at the left, and select "KWin" (the KDE default window manager) from the "KDE component" drop-down menu.

• Scroll down until you see in the "Action" column the actions "Quick Tile Window to the Left [/Right]"

These are the actions you want to map to the Meta+Left / Meta+Right keybindings -- just click on the actions, input the mappings, and enjoy.