GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 634141
IRC commands not working in empathy
Last modified: 2010-11-09 08:03:31 UTC
This is a similar bug to previous versions of empathy, only in Empathy verison 2.32.0.1. Basic commands like /msg and /join do not work under the IRC protocol in Empathy verison 2.32.0.1 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: empathy 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Nov 2 16:33:18 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.utf8 SourcePackage: empathy This bug was noted in Ubuntu 10.10 launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/670121
weird, this is fixed in the bug 573407
/query and /msg are broken, that's bug #623682. But /join and /j should work (I just tested). Be sure to prefix the channel name with #.
Your right, /query and /msg are broken. /join and /j do work. This bug should rolled up into #623682
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 623682 ***