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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 140918 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140918

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Empathy is almost impossible to set as a startup application

Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
  Invalid
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Triaged
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: empathy

  Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
  Empathy 2.28.1.1

  Since I like to have my messenger clients running whenever I'm online
  I wanted to set that to happen automaticaly. So here's what I tried:

  * I looked in the preferences of Empathy, and appart from the confusing entry "Automatically connect on startup" described in bug #322314 there is nothing about connecting.
  * I looked under 'System > Preferences > Startup applications', there is no entry for Empathy so Itry to make one...
     * The file browser starts in my home directory so I assume there's a good reason for that and try to find an entry there for empathy. Sadly there's no entry there called empathy.
     * Luckily I know a bit about this Ubuntu thing and the Gnome Desktop   so I look into the .gnome2 directory. Finally a directory called Empathy. But sadly that only has log files in it.
     * Thinking I'm a bit savvy I navigate to /usr/share/empathy ... but again there is no file I can point to to start empathy ...
     * Now I'm getting annoyed, nothing useful in /usr/share/gnome/autostart
     * Nothing in /usr/share/gnome2
     * /usr/bin/empathy looks promising - maybe I'll be lucky this time.

  Now I'm thoroughly annoyed at this stupid system which doesn't seem to
  have any standard way of starting an application!

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: 70577d17832e34b30176c21d9d564ab0
  CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
  Date: Sun Nov  8 08:47:59 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: empathy
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
  XsessionErrors:
   (gnome-settings-daemon:2096): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (gnome-settings-daemon:2096): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2141): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (nautilus:2131): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
   (gdu-notification-daemon:2136): GduNotification-WARNING **: No notification area. Notification bubbles will not be displayed.

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