empathy -h does not start hidden

[Stephen Rees-Carter]

Binary package hint: empathy

I have added "empathy -h" into my Startup Applications list so Empathy is always running when I login. The -h used to force it to load without showing the window, but it is now showing the window on login - which is annoying.

I am running 10.10 i386.

Is there anything else I can provide to help debug this?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.31.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-7.11-generic 2.6.35-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-7-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 9 15:51:48 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
SourcePackage: empathy

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

bug confirmed here too. sent it upstream. thanks for the bug report

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this bug is now fixed upstream. the fix for it will be in empathy 2.31.5

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.31.5.1-0ubuntu1

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empathy (2.31.5.1-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Bugs fixed:
    - Fixed #585914, Notification icon must be clicked before user can
      see new messages (lp: #206547)
    - Fixed #597124, Should make better use of libnotify actions
    - Fixed #599161, Audio/Video client should be a separated process
    - Fixed #617405, Empathy's short (menu) description should focus on its use,
      not the technology
    - Fixed #621753, Should be able to build with GTK+3
    - Fixed #622729, duplicated messages when opening chat
    - Fixed #623054, Should re-add data/org.gnome.Empathy.gschema.xml.in
      to POTFILES.in
    - Fixed #623112, Bip backlog are not displayed any more
    - Fixed #623117, Debug window should look for TP clients
    - Fixed #623358, Use TpSimpleHandler to handle text channels
    - Fixed #623396, Fixed some leaks
    - Fixed #623679, /join broken
    - Fixed #623756, empathy-CRITICAL **:
      empathy_chatroom_is_always_urgent: assertion `EMPATHY_IS_CHATROOM
    - Fixed #623817, Sync man pages with Debian
    - Fixed #623914, since tp-logger history is shown as normal messages
      in adium themes
    - Fixed #623937, empathy -h does not start hidden (lp: #603451)
    - Fixed #623972, Toggling [ ] Enabled in the accounts dialog with the
      keyboard doesn't work
    - Fixed #624054, Fix a memory leak in EmpathyAvatar
  * debian/empathy.1, debian/empathy-accounts.1, debian/empathy.manpages:
    - drop local manpages copies since they are updated upstream now
  * debian/empathy.gconf-defaults, debian/patches/02_notifications_focus.patch:
    - gsettings doesn't allow overwritting defaults yet to change the schemas
  * debian/empathy.install:
    - updated for the new files to install
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:38:46 +0200

[Habib (habibseifzadeh)]

The bug still exists in Empathy version of 2.32.0 which is installed by the fresh install of Maverick. No updates is released yet...

[pvincent (pvincent974)]

I confirm, the bug still exists in Empathy-2.32.0-0ubuntu2.
As a workaround, you can create a script which sleeps for 10s then launches empathy -h like this:
sh -c "sleep 10 && (empathy -h &)