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: 1.05
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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tschertel commented on 2019-08-28 23:21 (UTC)

@bulletmark Thanks for clarifying. Keep up the good work.

bulletmark commented on 2019-08-28 23:11 (UTC)

@tschertel, I last checked a few versions ago and that hack was still required.

tschertel commented on 2019-08-28 23:02 (UTC)

@bulletmark thanks for your feedback.

Is this error still present?

bulletmark commented on 2019-08-28 22:15 (UTC)

@tschertel, click on the "View PKGBUILD" at the top right here. It is just a shell script. You can see that asar is used to unpack and then repack the skype archive to fix up an ugly electron icon upscaling problem. The idea for the fix came from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/449756/doubled-system-tray-icons-in-xfce/480528#480528.

tschertel commented on 2019-08-28 13:27 (UTC) (edited on 2019-08-28 13:30 (UTC) by tschertel)

Sorry to ask, but why do we need "asar" for "make" the package if this is a "bin" package?

In Skype's website, there's no mention to any dependency but libappindicator1 or GtkStatusIcon. And they are just for notification icon.

bulletmark commented on 2019-08-21 00:10 (UTC)

@vasya, I added an install file with a warning.

vasya commented on 2019-08-20 10:57 (UTC) (edited on 2019-08-20 15:59 (UTC) by vasya)

@bulletmark I know very well that userns was enabled in linux and linux-lts some months ago. What I also know, is that linux-hardened does NOT have userns enabled. So for all people having this kernel (or a manually compiled kernel with this kind of flag), current skype won't work.

From that point of view, would an INSTALL script make sense, that warns the user if their kernel won't work with Skype? What do you think?

P.S. Thanks for making shellcheck-related fixes!

bulletmark commented on 2019-08-20 10:40 (UTC) (edited on 2019-08-20 10:46 (UTC) by bulletmark)

@vasya, yes, as I stated below and via the links I posted, that is the problem. But perhaps you did not read all those links, userns has been enabled on the Arch kernel since the middle of June 2019 (i.e. since 5.1.8) so this is not an issue for anyone running an up to date system.

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