I only just got my N900 and I'm totally new to Pidgin. It's mostly fine, I just have one little annoyance.

When I move away from the app (for example, if I switch to do something else, or even just when the screen goes off to save the battery), it changes my status to 'Away'.

This really annoys me. I want my status to read 'Available' even if I don't have the app on the screen at the moment (it's running, I'm just looking at something else). Is there any way to make it keep my status as 'Available' all the time?