Public bug reported: Binary package hint: empathy
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Empathy 2.28.1.1 Since I like to have my messenger clients running whenever I'm online I wanted to set that to happen automaticaly. So here's what I tried: * I looked in the preferences of Empathy, and appart from the confusing entry "Automatically connect on startup" described in bug #322314 there is nothing about connecting. * I looked under 'System > Preferences > Startup applications', there is no entry for Empathy so Itry to make one... * The file browser starts in my home directory so I assume there's a good reason for that and try to find an entry there for empathy. Sadly there's no entry there called empathy. * Luckily I know a bit about this Ubuntu thing and the Gnome Desktop so I look into the .gnome2 directory. Finally a directory called Empathy. But sadly that only has log files in it. * Thinking I'm a bit savvy I navigate to /usr/share/empathy ... but again there is no file I can point to to start empathy ... * Now I'm getting annoyed, nothing useful in /usr/share/gnome/autostart * Nothing in /usr/share/gnome2 * /usr/bin/empathy looks promising - maybe I'll be lucky this time. Now I'm thoroughly annoyed at this stupid system which doesn't seem to have any standard way of starting an application! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 70577d17832e34b30176c21d9d564ab0 CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525 Date: Sun Nov 8 08:47:59 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: empathy Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:2096): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:2096): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2141): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:2131): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (gdu-notification-daemon:2136): GduNotification-WARNING **: No notification area. Notification bubbles will not be displayed. ** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: 100papercuts apport-bug gui i386 usability -- Empathy is almost impossible to set as a startup application https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478178 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs