I'm able to reproduce this...
1. Make sure Empathy is not running. If it is running quit it, or kill it from
the system monitor.
2. In a terminal, start empathy using the "start hidden option, as follows:
$ empathy -h
3. Notice that empathy is now running in system moitor.
4. From the messaging menu indicator applet, select Empathy.
5. The Empathy Contact List window does *not* appear, as expected.
6. Now try to start Empathy from the Unity Dash.
7. Again, the Empathy Contact List window does not appear, as expected.
8. Notice that empathy is still running in the background in system moitor.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1179180
Title:
Impossible to open Empathy contact list window if already started with
'-h' option
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
If I add Empathy to 'Startup Applications' to start it with '-h'
option, I'll never be able to open the contact list window.
Tried:
- If query with 'ps -ef | grep emapthy', I can see empathy is running.
- If run 'empathy' from command line, the command exits without any output,
but nothing happens after that.
- If choose 'Empathy Internet Messaging' from Unity Dashboard, nothing
happens.
- If choose from the locked lens, I can see the icon "blinks slowly" (if you
know what I mean, I'm not native speaker of English), and then it stops
blinking, nothing happens after that.
However, if I didn't start Empathy with '-h' option, everything seems
normal.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: empathy 3.6.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 12 18:27:52 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-12 (273 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (16 days ago)
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