Package Details: skypeforlinux-bin 8.138.0.213-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/skypeforlinux-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: skypeforlinux-bin
Description: Skype for Linux
Upstream URL: https://www.skype.com/
Keywords: skype
Licenses: custom
Conflicts: skype, skypeforlinux
Provides: skype, skypeforlinux
Submitter: Hanabishi
Maintainer: Hanabishi
Last Packager: Hanabishi
Votes: 332
Popularity: 0.87
First Submitted: 2024-03-04 17:57 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-03-27 10:22 (UTC)

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Hanabishi commented on 2025-02-28 12:11 (UTC)

Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May

Hanabishi commented on 2024-07-31 07:28 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-20 13:25 (UTC) by Hanabishi)

There is a problem with Skype being stuck on the login screen on first launch. That happens when your org.freedesktop.secrets provider doesn't have a keyring configured, i.e. also first launch.

I don't know if this is a quirk of libsecret or Skype itself, but we can't do pretty much anything about it anyway.

Solutions are simple though:

  1. Despite the login screen being stuck, the login itself is actually successful. So just kill it and run Skype again, it should be fine after that.

  2. Configure your default keyring manually (using seahorse, kwalletmanager etc.) before running Skype.

bulletmark commented on 2020-04-30 10:01 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-13 00:22 (UTC) by bulletmark)

To get automatic login, install a package that provides org.freedesktop.secrets, e.g. gnome-keyring.

To get a systray icon, install libappindicator-gtk3. On GNOME, then install the appindicator extension.

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maderios commented on 2024-03-04 15:08 (UTC)

Repackaging the snap would be a good idea

Hanabishi commented on 2024-03-04 15:01 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-04 15:06 (UTC) by Hanabishi)

I don't like the proposed changes from a technical standpoint. (E.g. why trying to port changes from old versions? Why returning useless old launcher script?)

But the idea itself already was proposed in TU response. Although, judging by lack of feedback, I suppose @bulletmark is not interested in it.

mozo commented on 2024-03-04 14:29 (UTC)

An AUR package would be great but let first see if bulletmark will merge your changes in this package.

trilader commented on 2024-03-04 14:24 (UTC)

@maderios @mozo You can see the files/changes in the gist link in my comment.

I'll add a separate AUR package if @bulletmark doesn't want to "just" take/adapt my changes and continue to take care of this package.

I'm also not opposed to co-maintaining this package.

mozo commented on 2024-03-04 14:20 (UTC)

Yep, it'll be great.

maderios commented on 2024-03-04 14:12 (UTC)

@trilader Why not sharing your PKGBUILD here ?

trilader commented on 2024-03-04 13:07 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-04 13:08 (UTC) by trilader)

Due to MS moving this to snap, me not liking snap and the poor (for me at least) screenshare performance when running Skype in the browser I've played around with the snap API and this PKGBUILD during the weekend and found a way to make this work still.

The package() function is a bit of a hack as stuff needs to be extracted from the snap manually.

You can find the alternative PKGBUILD and support files here: https://gist.github.com/trilader/2cf0dd41b075b8da37f9b326c7ddd457

jeancf commented on 2024-01-03 13:02 (UTC)

Thanks for all the fish bulletmark.

liOnux commented on 2023-12-30 10:19 (UTC)

Thank-you @bulletmark for maintaining this package until MS decided to provide it only as a Snap application.

bulletmark commented on 2023-12-22 21:46 (UTC)

Please note that Microsoft have stopped providing this package so it will not be updated anymore: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-for-linux-updates/da864865-d9e9-4819-8a5d-8de8934dd312

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