@Omer I think it's perfectly valid approach. The Startup Applications is
supposed to be a central place to control those, so there is no need to
scatter this functionality in the programs. The latter would be a
Windows-like way, but on Linux, flexibility is the goal.
However, this should be better
Ubuntu 10.4 (64-bit) on Lenovo ThinkPad T400
I'm observing the same problem.
First, I did:
1. Boot the system
2. Logged on the system
3. Configured Jabber and Google Talk account in Empathy
4. Verified Empathy works well and is accessible from the Indicator Applet, Me
menu, etc.
Next, I did the