12.04 Empathy hotkeys and notification icon

**muffinmad** · July 6th, 2012

Hello.

Is there a way to get global hot-key for opening empathy incoming chat message?
And can empathy blink it's icon somewhere instead of just changing color of messaging notification icon?

**Ceannfaolaidh** · July 6th, 2012

Unfortunately, there's no simple way to assign keyboard shortcuts to panel icons. However, you can work around this by locking empathy to the launcher and using Super+# (where # is the position of Empathy on the launcher, not counting the dash button) to focus it.

As to your other question, Empathy should pop a bubble notification whenever you receive a new message. If it's not, open Empathy from the Dash and go to Edit > Preferences > Notifications. Check "Enable bubble notifications" and "Enable notification when the chat is not focused."

**muffinmad** · July 6th, 2012

Too bad. After focusing contact list i must select the contact and press Enter to open chat window. And if contact list is not opened, but chat window, from which is not possible open new incoming message, i guess.. In this case i actually can press Shift+Super+#, so contact list will be focused. Instead of one global hot-key

Yes, notifications are shown (btw, how can i hide message text from it and how to dissmiss it?), but if i miss notification bubble flashing icon can help.

**Ceannfaolaidh** · July 6th, 2012

Unfortunately there isn't much to be done about making waiting Empathy messages more obvious, and bubble notifications can't be dismissed (althouh they go away fairly quickly). Just a couple things to consider: what icon theme are you using? Some themes have terrible notification colors (i.e. grey to slightly darker grey); I'd suggest ubuntu-mono-dark.

For more support, you can join the discussion about this issue at Launchpad or check out the forum thread regarding the same topic.

**muffinmad** · July 6th, 2012

Yes, it's ubuntu-mono-dark. I think it's a matter of habbit. I'm just came up from gnome shell where i have extension that displays number of incoming chats if any, and possibility to answer right from notification.

Thanks