GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 623937
empathy -h does not start hidden
Last modified: 2010-11-08 11:05:47 UTC
people set empathy to start on boot with empathy -h so that the window does not popup on boot. with empathy 2.31.4 this does not work i.e. the contact list comes up. the same happens if started from command line. originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/603451
Created attachment 165552 [details] [review] http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/empathy;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/hidden-623937 src/empathy-status-icon.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Review of attachment 165552 [details] [review]: ++
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
This is broken again in 2.32.0
I just tested with 2.32.0 from the Maverick package and empathy -h does start it hidden.
Really? daniel@chieftec:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10" daniel@chieftec:~$ empathy -v Empathy 2.32.0.1 daniel@chieftec:~$
And what happen if you start empathy -h manually (not from gnome-session) ?
It shows the contact list in a window. There's no differences starting it with or without -h. I'm running Xmonad as window manager. I guess that has nothing to do with it?
Humm could be. Any chance you could try using metacity?
Yes, seems to work when running metacity. But it does flicker at first, and then "minimizes" into the status bar. Maybe that's what's confusing Xmonad? Why not just not showing the window at all at start?