Running "empathy --start-hidden" at startup doesn't start it hidden

[yajo]

Binary package hint: empathy

Using Ubuntu 10.10 + Empathy 2.32.0.

Go to System -> Preferences -> Applications at startup.
Add one called Empathy, edit it to execute "empathy --start-hidden" and activate it.

Close your session and open it again. It will show the empathy window, but it should start hiddenly.
This didn't happen in earlier versions.

Interesting note 1:
Close Empathy, open a terminal and write: empathy --start-hidden. It will start hidden :)
Open another terminal and write the same. It will pop up :(

Compare with interesting note 2:
Close Empathy, press Alt+F2 and write: empathy --start-hidden. It will start hidden :)
Press Alt+F2 again and execute again the same command. It will do nothing :)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

just adding it to my startup applications and it worked fine.

on your two 'interesting notes': thats because empathy is already running and invoking it again ignore any parameters.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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