I cannot use more than one IRC online account at a time

[Curtis Hovey]

I want to join channels (rooms) on both freenode and canonical's IRC servers. I can activate either account and join rooms. When both are active, I can only join the rooms for the first activated account. I cannot use Empathy to work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: empathy 3.5.90-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 4 11:18:04 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-26 (8 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692561

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

You can join channels with /join command from the net of active channel. You can enter into channels with /join command. The net will be the same from active channel.

You can open the Empathy's contact list and then Control+J for choose net and channel to enter.

But really the Empathy is not supporting two accounts with same nick. For now you can configure distinct nicks for distinct accounts and after of connected then use the commands /nick and /msg Nickserv IDENTIFY <password>.

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

Fix:

/nick <nick>

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

Work around: with IRC accounts, you do not must "grant access" for the Ubuntu. So you can use a same nick in distinct accounts. What matters for the remote connection is the nick configured in the options "Empathy Messenger" of each account config.