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Bug 666245 - Setting empathy status via messaging menu deactivated when autostarting empathy
Setting empathy status via messaging menu deactivated when autostarting empathy
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-15 11:47 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified: 2018-05-22 15:16 UTC
See Also:
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Description Bilal Shahid 2011-12-15 11:47:45 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/843798

I usually prefer my IM application to start automatically in the background at boot time. So i it up in start-up applications in the system preferences using /usr/bin/empathy -h as command line.

Empathy starts fine at boot and connects to various networks. But the status switching via the messaging menu is grayed out, while being still available via the application window itself.
The only way to resolve this, is to start empathy manually after the system has finished loading.

I also tried without -h which would be the default behavior when starting manually, but that doesn't change the behavior with autostart.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.1.90-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep  7 13:44:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64+mac (20110901)
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 15:16:13 UTC 
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