Jordan, The reason you see this is because you have your status set to Available in the session menu. It's an easy matter to change this globaly: Go SessionMenu -> Set Status -> Offline
and incoming messages will not open Empathy and you will appear offline. ** Changed in: indicator-session (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) => (unassigned) -- empathy started automatically on incoming message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444170 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