Package Details: skypeforlinux-bin 8.133.0.202-1

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: 330
Popularity: 0.98
First Submitted: 2024-03-04 17:57 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-21 03:34 (UTC)

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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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ikiruto commented on 2020-04-28 06:34 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-28 06:35 (UTC) by ikiruto)

Manjaro. After each update, you must change the file permissions, since Skype does not start.

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/share/skypeforlinux/chrome-sandbox

bulletmark commented on 2020-04-27 23:58 (UTC)

@vesterlay, good suggestion. Something must have changed in skype and/or electron because this didn't seem to work previously but it does now. I have updated both stable and preview packages.

vesterlay commented on 2020-04-27 23:21 (UTC)

Please add libappindicator-gtk3 to the dependency list for tray icon support.

maximaman commented on 2020-04-16 15:04 (UTC)

Hmm, it seems that I didn't see the comments about the org.freedesktop.secrets optional dependency on the page for the skypeforlinux-preview-bin package. My fault for not understanding its purpose...

maximaman commented on 2020-04-16 14:59 (UTC)

It seems that autologin not working is caused by gnome-keyring not being installed. That's why I think it should be added to the PKGBUILD as an optional package:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6f5476b..e42d074 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ arch=("x86_64")
 url="http://www.skype.com"
 license=("custom")
 depends=("gtk3" "libxss" "alsa-lib" "libxtst" "libsecret" "nss" "glibc>=2.28-4")
-optdepends=("org.freedesktop.secrets")
+optdepends=("org.freedesktop.secrets" "gnome-keyring")
 makedepends=("asar")
 conflicts=("$_pkgname" "$_pkgname-bin" "$_pkgname-preview-bin" "$_pkgname-beta-bin" "skype")
 provides=("$_pkgname" "skype")

bulletmark commented on 2020-03-26 00:16 (UTC)

@Superturisto, it looks like you are using a 3rd party Arch repo. Get rid of it.

Superturisto commented on 2020-03-26 00:10 (UTC)

I've got error: failed retrieving file 'skypeforlinux-stable-bin-8.58.0.93-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from repo.jkanetwork.com : Maximum file size exceeded

geddy commented on 2020-03-25 11:00 (UTC)

Sorry, it was me being a doughnut. I used aurutils to "aur fetch skypeforlinux" rather than "aur etch skypeforlinux-stable-bin"

bulletmark commented on 2020-03-25 10:36 (UTC)

@deb, what is that file you quote? What PKGBUILD are you using? As above, current version here is 8.58.0.93.

geddy commented on 2020-03-25 10:25 (UTC)

I get a 404 for https://repo.skype.com/deb/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux_8.7.76.59440_amd64.deb

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