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Please, don't ask for add lsb-release as dependency. In Arch Linux this package is not needed to run Slack Desktop.

And before asking for any other dependency as make or patch or whatever, please read the wiki.

@ogarcia I see you accepted @bordeland's patch, any chance of a release with that?

Though, if I understand correctly, I can just add it to the .desktop entry myself in the mean time. Any way to have it read $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/electron-flags.conf? Since that's what the wiki points to to enable wayland for all Electron applications, but it seems it isn't picked up by Slack.

hi there! I'd like to propose that we add ozone hints to the .desktop file. Afaik this should work fine for x11 and wayland alike and would be just a quality of life improvement (and render tons of other aur packages useless for most clients).

I created a little patch here: https://github.com/boredland/aur-slack-desktop/commit/69bf61cb53026a3b3eac2e2cc2f28154d8566328

@BSoD38 Had the same issue, I removed the slack-desktop.patch file without noticing. It worked fine after I rm'd the whole folder and cloned the repo again.

Since 4.29 released, building the app became impossible (I retried on Manjaro's latest stable version that released today).

I get the following output :

Preparing...
Cloning slack-desktop build files...
Generating slack-desktop information...
Checking slack-desktop dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...

Building slack-desktop...
==> Making package: slack-desktop 4.29.149-1 (Tue 06 Dec 2022 09:33:11 CET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found slack-desktop-4.29.149-amd64.deb
==> ERROR: slack-desktop.patch was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.
Failed to build slack-desktop

I've switched back to using the flatpak version for now, but it's not ideal.

@eigenstryker:

❯ yay -S slack-desktop --editmenu --mflags slack-desktop
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:1]  slack-desktop-4.29.144-1

  1 slack-desktop                    (Installed) (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> A
:: Deleting (1/1): /home/MYUSER/.cache/yay/slack-desktop
:: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: slack-desktop
  1 slack-desktop                    (Installed) (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> n
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: slack-desktop
  1 slack-desktop                    (Installed) (Build Files Exist)
==> PKGBUILDs to edit?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> A

 -> $EDITOR is not set
 -> Add $EDITOR or $VISUAL to your environment variables
==> Edit PKGBUILD with?
==> nvim

On line 6, change pkgver=4.29.144 to pkgver=4.28.182

On line 18-19, change b2sums=('BLAH' 'ANOTHER BLAH') to b2sums=('0246dd6ee6983dafad166e41faab30d495c39ad1a66c63bb59174ca1cbe12e275cd961a6873dcbbbe0a497cfeb5786265fcaf85be4134a444d5c2376f3b3753b667ac8b5237d74cbc643433148ec0a4f8ddfe65276d6029cc6941b464938e6c37f904c2369cbe14ca3f1819dd')

You can find this out by clicking in the git repo above, going to logs, and back to the [last working commit.] (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/PKGBUILD?h=slack-desktop&id=14ed7b0d37e57daf680e5a0d932d5643337c44d0) Although if you copy-pasted my --skipinteg flag from the provided command, it shouldn't matter what you put in place of b2sums.

Will someone please explain the b2sum workaround steps to get Slack working? @Subject-17 @Stephen2

b2sum slack-desktop-4.28.182-amd64.deb  
0246dd6ee6983dafad166e41faab30d495c39ad1a66c63bb59174ca1cbe12e275cd961a6873dcbbbe0a497cfeb79e19b6bc6fcdbc60a6a1b9a7e182ddf478066  slack-desktop-4.28.182-amd64.deb

@Subject-17 I replaced also the b2sum with the above, and it installed, and Slack works again.

Not sure what's broken in latest version

I'm also unable to use the 4.29.144 release of slack.

I ran yay -S slack-desktop --editmenu --mflags --skipinteg slack-desktop and edited the slack-desktop PKGBUILD to have the prior version 4.28.182 . After re-authing, it's working as expected.

If anyone knows the old b2sums, I'd definitely appreciate sharing them. I took a look @ their "debian sigverify" suggestions and stopped diving into the rabbit hole.

I'm having similar problems in current version 4.29.144 as reported by mpolishchuck. System tray icon appears immediately upon launch, but long (~5 min) delay just to get an empty slack window. After 10 mins, I still just have the empty window.

The latest version 4.29.144 is working weirdly. It shows tray icon, but main windows does not appear for a very long time. Main windows appears after some waiting (10-15 minutes for me).

The previous version 4.28.182 works fine.