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7 <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
8 <link type="seealso" xref="remove-account"/>
9 <desc>Prevent <app>Empathy</app> from automatically logging in to an account.</desc>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-14" status="draft"/>
11 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
12 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.3" date="2009-08-27" status="review"/>
13 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.4" date="2009-08-31" status="review">
15 <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-08-31" status="done"/>
18 <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.5" date="2010-02-03" status="review"/>
19 <credit type="author">
20 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
21 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
23 <credit type="author">
24 <name>Shaun McCance</name>
25 <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
28 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
33 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
35 <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
39 <title>Disable an account</title>
41 <p>You can disable an account to prevent <app>Empathy</app> from logging in to
42 it without removing the account entirely. You may wish to disable and re-enable
43 an account if you only want to be logged in to the account at certain times,
44 but you still want to use <app>Empathy</app> for other accounts.</p>
48 <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui>
49 <gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>, or press <key>F4</key>.</p>
52 <p>Select the account you wish to disable from the accounts list on the left
53 side of the window.</p>
56 <p>Deselect <gui style="checkbox">Enabled</gui> on the right side of the
63 To re-enable the account, simply select <gui style="checkbox">Enabled</gui>.