GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 590640
empathy is not working under fvwm2
Last modified: 2009-12-03 18:08:02 UTC
Please describe the problem: I am (probably one of the last) user of venerable fvwm 2.5.26 window manager. As such there are no gnome specific daemons running. The system does have gnome installed, as my wife uses it. My machine is ubuntu 9.04 32bit with following sources in sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu jaunty main When I try to run empathy (the latests one, of version 2.27.3-2ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1), I get no windows at all. I tried to cleanup the environment using following shell script, to no avail: #!/bin/sh cd rm -rf .gstreamer-0.* /tmp/empathy.arie* /tmp/orbit* \ /home/arie/.gnome2/Empathy /home/arie/.cache/Empathy killall gconfd-2 killall gconf-helper killall mission-control killall telepathy-gabble Steps to reproduce: 1. Login using fvwm2 window manager 2. Make sure no gnome daemons are running: #!/bin/sh cd rm -rf .gstreamer-0.* /tmp/empathy.arie* /tmp/orbit* \ /home/arie/.gnome2/Empathy /home/arie/.cache/Empathy killall gconfd-2 killall gconf-helper killall mission-control killall telepathy-gabble 3. Start empathy Actual results: No windows appear. Expected results: To get empathy window. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: Here are the error messages I get from terminal when starting empathy: (empathy:30511): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GstValve' (empathy:30511): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (empathy:30511): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion `g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed (empathy:30511): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GstRTPMux' (empathy:30511): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion `g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed (empathy:30510): ClutterGLX-CRITICAL **: Unable to find suitable GL visual. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_message_actual: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: _parse_parameter: param "fallback-socks5-proxies" has invalid signature ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running. ** (empathy:30510): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
Does your desktop have a notification area to show GtkStatusIcon? You'll have problems if it doesn't.
fvwm2 is not a desktop, it is window manager. As such it does not have any notification area at all. Can't empathy work without notification area?
Unfortunatelly not : bug #467829 Closing this bug as a dup of this one as Empathy is basically unusable atm without status icon. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 467829 ***