[Bug 807723] Re: Empathy does not start at login by default

[Chris Roberts]

** 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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