It happens in five minutes on my system. I think I know what's going on, because I just happened to witness it: I think Empathy logs back in when it goes Away!
In the scenario I described above machine A is my laptop and machine B is my workstation. I neglected to mention that on machine B I'm actually using Pidgin, but I don't think that matters. I observed that when I logged in on my workstation, Empathy on the laptop neatly listed the three accounts as "Name in use". But five minutes later, when the screensaver on the laptop kicked in, Pidgin on my workstation got kicked out. When I then looked at what happened on the laptop Empathy had gone to Away status, and had logged back in to all accounts. -- Logs back in when user has logged in somewhere else https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560575 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