just adding it to my startup applications and it worked fine. on your two 'interesting notes': thats because empathy is already running and invoking it again ignore any parameters.
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- Running "empathy --start-hidden" at startup doesn't start it hidden https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663257 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs