Setting empathy status via messaging menu deactivated when autostarting empathy

Bug #843798 reported by Paul Hoell
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This bug affects 13 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Expired
Medium
empathy (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I usually prefer my IM application to start automatically in the background at boot time. So i it up in start-up applications in the system preferences using /usr/bin/empathy -h as command line.

Empathy starts fine at boot and connects to various networks. But the status switching via the messaging menu is grayed out, while being still available via the application window itself.
The only way to resolve this, is to start empathy manually after the system has finished loading.

I also tried without -h which would be the default behavior when starting manually, but that doesn't change the behavior with autostart.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.1.90-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 7 13:44:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64+mac (20110901)
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Paul Hoell (hoellp) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jiri Vaclavovic (jvaclavovic) wrote :

I have the same problem, 11.10 Beta 2, upgraded from 11.04 (2 machines).

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Paul Lawley-Jones (paullawleyjones) wrote :

In addition to Paul's report, starting the GUI and changing the status enables the Messaging Menu status icons too.

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote :

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=666245

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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Sebastian Grabowski (sgrabowski10) wrote :

It works for me with a script, started at login.

I think Empathy starts too early and cannot connect to unity correctly.

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote :

This preference means that Empathy will connect your IM accounts when starting,
not that Empathy will be started with your session.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in empathy:
status: New → Invalid
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Paul Hoell (hoellp) wrote :

That is not true Bilal. You mistook my meaning. I was never talking about any setting for autoconnection. I was and still am talking about the problem, that when you put empathy in the autostart, the status changer in unity's indicator don't work.

This still happens in 12.04 btw.

Please revert your status change.

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote :

marking back to the previous status please subscribe to the upstream bug, and comment there.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in empathy:
status: Invalid → New
Changed in empathy:
status: New → Expired
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