Empathy doesn't change status upon standby or screen-lock

[Damien]

I don't know if it's an empathy bug or if it's specific to this distribution. Putting the computer on standby (by closing the lid) or waiting for it to lock the screen does not change empathy online status. For standby, the status is said online at the other end even though there is no connection (error message upon sending a message).

I'm using Bonjour to do the tests.

afaik empathy auto-away is linked to gnome-screensaver, which I don't believe is installed in elementaryOS

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

gnome-screensaver is running, enter it in a Terminal and you should get "** (gnome-screensaver:6778): WARNING **: screensaver already running in this session"

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thanks for taking time in filing the bug to make ubuntu better
i dont understand the bug
u mean when u get resume from suspend the empathy status does not back to available ?

[Damien (youpla-b)]

When the local computer is put on standby, the remote computer still sees it online. It's not really online, it'sobviously an artifact and when the remote computer tries to contact the local computer (still sleeping), it then receives an error message.

The status is not changed from online to offline when using standby, resulting in potential confusion and loss of messages by the remote computers.

[Damien (youpla-b)]

And auto-away is similarly broken, the status is never changed from online to away or whatever if the computer is left unattended. This is also a cause of confusion for the other users.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

please attach the screen shot of that error message ?

[Damien (youpla-b)]

The standby bug doesn't happen anymore. However I still don't have autoaway.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

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