The Empathy chat client on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine logs into chat accounts (Gmail and Facebook) only after I have opened the client once (it starts on system boot) this is a bit irritating as I often forget to do it after booting my machine. Is there a setting that I am missing or is this a an unanswered bug in Empathy ?
2 Answers
System – Preferences – Startup Applications
to en- or disable. I then also added the -h
switch to the command to hide the contact list when it starts.
or try this
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/empathy.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart
sudo chmod a+r /etc/xdg/autostart/empathy.desktop
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did not work , empathy is in the startup but it will login only when I maximize the window once– ShekharMay 20, 2011 at 6:53
Per answer from kracekumar, I had to add empathy.desktop to the autostart directory:
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/empathy.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart
sudo chmod a+r /etc/xdg/autostart/empathy.desktop
Additionally, I added the line:
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
works for me on Ubuntu 11.10