** Description changed: - Empathy always starts up with my status flagged as Offline. Sometimes I - can click on my username in the notification area and click Available - and all will be well for the current session. But the statuses are - usually disabled (dark grey) until I go into Chat Accounts. In Chat - Accounts all the accounts are set "On" but with the description "Status - is set to Offline". If I switch them to "Off" and then "On" again, they - connect and all is okay for the current session. + Empathy always starts up with my status flagged as Offline in the + notification area. - There seems to be no way of setting status to start-up online by - default. + It seems that the reason for this is that Empathy is actually not + running and has to be added to Start-up Applications. + + This was on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04. + + I believe that, once the user has set up his chat accounts, there should + be a workflow that adds Empathy to the Start-up Applications. + + The same workflow worked perfectly for Gwibber, where I had no such + problems. I have read other reports of requiring dconf, but this was a fresh install of 11.04 and libdconf0 0.7.3-ubuntu1 seems to be already installed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jul 8 21:24:03 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: - LANGUAGE=en_GB:en - LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + LANGUAGE=en_GB:en + LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Description changed: - Empathy always starts up with my status flagged as Offline in the - notification area. + Ubuntu always starts up with my chat statuses greyed out as Offline in + the notification area. You have to run Chat Accounts and close it + again, and then you can select Available. It seems that the reason for this is that Empathy is actually not running and has to be added to Start-up Applications. This was on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04. I believe that, once the user has set up his chat accounts, there should be a workflow that adds Empathy to the Start-up Applications. The same workflow worked perfectly for Gwibber, where I had no such problems. I have read other reports of requiring dconf, but this was a fresh install of 11.04 and libdconf0 0.7.3-ubuntu1 seems to be already installed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jul 8 21:24:03 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Description changed: Ubuntu always starts up with my chat statuses greyed out as Offline in - the notification area. You have to run Chat Accounts and close it - again, and then you can select Available. + the notification area and you cannot change your status. You have to + run Chat Accounts and close it again, and then you can select Available. It seems that the reason for this is that Empathy is actually not - running and has to be added to Start-up Applications. + running and has to be added to Start-up Applications; whereon it works + perfectly. This was on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04. I believe that, once the user has set up his chat accounts, there should be a workflow that adds Empathy to the Start-up Applications. The same workflow worked perfectly for Gwibber, where I had no such problems. I have read other reports of requiring dconf, but this was a fresh install of 11.04 and libdconf0 0.7.3-ubuntu1 seems to be already installed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jul 8 21:24:03 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/807723 Title: Empathy does not start at login by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/807723/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
