Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. What version of empathy are you using? 'empathy --version' in terminal. Do the messages come in at the same time where as the first may show but be overlapped with the second message, or are they far enough apart that the first message is not shown.
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065176 Title: first message not showing in gnome message bar Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: when using xmpp(gtalk) when a message comes in from a new contact(in contact list and not) the notification sound goes off and the user shows in the message bar but the message text does not, show for the first line they sent. example using gmail.com Someone: Hi Someone: How are you? Me: Fine Example using Empathy: Someone: How are you? Me: Fine To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1065176/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp