[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#511439: Bug#511439: empathy doesn't show UI

[Jonny Lamb]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 10, 23:07:48 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Just installed empathy on Debian lenny (fresh install) and tried to start it. It didn't exit, but didn't show any UI whatsoever either. Used empathy-accounts to add and enable a Salut account; didn't make any difference.

empathy defaults to its UI being "hidden" on first run. This means that
although it's running, the only visible sign of this is an icon in the
status bar. Clicking this icon will bring up the UI.

> Additional info:
> I'm using ion3 as window manager. None of the usual "desktop environments" (KDE, Gnome, etc.) has been installed.

As you're using ion3, I'm going to guess you don't have a status bar,
and therefore you're not seeing any activity upon running empathy.

A workaround for this is to execute empathy again once you've already
started it -- the new instance will find the existing instance, pop up
its UI, and thenexit. Also note that empathy remembers your hidden
preference on exit so this should only be a problem once (but the destroy
signal simple minimizes the UI, not close the application).

I'm tempted to close this bug as invalid because empathy really is
designed for the GNOME desktop, although it is very usable anywhere with
a status bar (I run awesome, and I know another who uses xmonad with
gnome-panel).

Kind regards,

-- 
Jonny Lamb, UK
jonny at debian.org
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