| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/skypeforlinux-bin.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| 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: | 1.30 |
| First Submitted: | 2024-03-04 17:57 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-03-27 10:22 (UTC) |
The last snap update (8.150.0.125) is destructive, it replaces the whole app with a single window advertising migration to Microsoft Teams. The package would not be destructively updated of course.
Although, Skype servers still appear to be alive, so I guess the package could be kept as is for now, in case someone needs it.
Thanks to Hanabishi for him skypeforlinux-bin 8.136.0.203-1 stable package!!!
You need to select the keyring as default. Works for me with KDE Wallet.
Configuring the default keyring manually doesn't help sadly. it was configured before and still is. But the solution 1 works. First login, get white screen in skype window. Close skype, but several processed keep hanging around (pgrep -l skype to verify). pkill skype until pgrep skype doesn't return anything anymore (or just rudely pkill -9 skype). Run skype again and you should be logged in.
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:
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.
Configure your default keyring manually (using seahorse, kwalletmanager etc.) before running Skype.
Thanks for looking into it. So it seems it was just by chance that after installing those packages it all worked again. I now removed them, reboot the system and I didn't have any problems signing in. I didn't get those error messages and neither did Skype get stuck and had to relaunch. Before rebooting, though, I updated the system, so in the same way that the previous system update broke Skype for me, it seems that this last one has fixed it.
Also I found that it only happens on first launch if there is no existing default keyring/wallet configured. If you have existing default keyring properly configured, it works just fine.
I guess Skype simply doesn't like keyring init process for some reason. I.e. you need to manually configure your secret provider before.
I have some findings:
That warnings has nothing to do with the white login screen problem and always appear.
Installing gio-qt/glibmm/libsigc++ does not fix the issue. Despite the login screen appears broken, the login is actually successful, so Skype works just fine after relaunch. I guess you had wrong impression of them helping because of that.
So the actual source of the problem is unknown. It could probably be an incompatibility with some library versions between Arch and snap image.
Hmm, yeah, now I see it. Fresh log in fails, even with KDE Wallet. I will investigate it.
Pinned Comments
Hanabishi commented on 2025-05-08 22:01 (UTC)
The last snap update (
8.150.0.125) is destructive, it replaces the whole app with a single window advertising migration to Microsoft Teams. The package would not be destructively updated of course.Although, Skype servers still appear to be alive, so I guess the package could be kept as is for now, in case someone needs it.
Hanabishi commented on 2025-02-28 12:11 (UTC)
Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May