“share my desktop” is greyed out

[Rumpeltux]

Binary package hint: empathy

On two machines in local network with local-xmpp accounts in empathy (both 2.28.0.1), the two of them can see each other and chat to each other.
The menu entry “share my desktop” is greyed out, with no hint onto why.
The help mentions that a special application is required to view, but does not mention which one.
I suppose it’s vinagre, but this one is installed on both machines.

Expected behaviour: have the menu entry available to share the desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 19 17:10:47 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

do you face this under empathy 2.28.1.1 ? I can't reproduce this under empathy 2.29.6

[Rumpeltux (rumpeltux)]

I faced this originally using karmic, but I just updated to 2.29.90-0ubuntu2 to check and it's still greyed out (although the remote side is still 2.28.1.1).

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Is this an issue in Lucid?

[Tim Black (tim-alwaysreformed)]

This affects me also on Lucid, with Empathy 2.30.1. Remote Desktop (vino & vinagre) is installed & working on both machines such that both can view each others' screens, but the "Share my desktop" menu option is still greyed out in Empathy.

[Tim Black (tim-alwaysreformed)]

I should mention the two machines I'm using are a Lucid host and a Lucid guest in VirtualBox, where the guest's network connection is in bridged mode.

[Rumpeltux (rumpeltux)]

I can also confirm, that this is still an issue in Lucid.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

is the other user using windows or mac?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Rumpeltux
<email address hidden>wrote:

> I can also confirm, that this is still an issue in Lucid.
>
> --
> “share my desktop” is greyed out
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455512
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to empathy
> in ubuntu.
>
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> On two machines in local network with local-xmpp accounts in empathy (both
> 2.28.0.1), the two of them can see each other and chat to each other.
> The menu entry “share my desktop” is greyed out, with no hint onto why.
> The help mentions that a special application is required to view, but does
> not mention which one.
> I suppose it’s vinagre, but this one is installed on both machines.
>
> Expected behaviour: have the menu entry available to share the desktop.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Oct 19 17:10:47 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
> Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu6
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: empathy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
>
>
>

[Rumpeltux (rumpeltux)]

Nope it’s Lucid twice.

The option is available for Jabber contacts, but for some reason empathy does not show myself in the buddy list…

[Vish (vish)]

Is there any news about this bug? Has anyone forwarded the bug upstream?

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for the report. This is a feature of Empathy right now. It will have the option but if its not allowed by the protocol in some way it will be greyed out. Since this can still be up for debate, i'll leave this as opinion to allow for continued discussion.