** Description changed: Ubuntu always starts up with my chat statuses greyed out as Offline in - 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. + the notification area and you cannot change your status. Running Chat + Accounts from the notification area and closing it again enables you to + select Available. Alternatively running Chat from the notification area + or Empathy from the menu enables you to select Available. + + This is on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04. It seems that the reason for this is that Empathy is actually not - running and has to be added to Start-up Applications; whereon it works - perfectly. - - This was on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04. + running. I tried adding to start-up applications, but whilst this solved + the problem, I started having problems with the desktop not loading from + time to time, forcing me to kill X and start again. 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. + be a workflow that adds an Empathy daemon to the Start-up Applications. - The same workflow worked perfectly for Gwibber, where I had no such + Gwibber is a similar application in many ways, and it suffers no such problems. The following bug seems to contain some discussion of this issue, but is reporting a slightly different problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/322314 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)
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