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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.

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.

https://slack.com/release-notes/linux mentions Slack 4.29.144 released on 2022-11-02 but all existing download links point to 4.28.184.

The version 4.28.184 is not stable for me. Especially it has immense CPU usage when doing anything within the client. Downgrading to 4.28.182 solved that for me for now. Also slack does not list 4.28.184 anymore on it's linux releases. Instead there is a new version 4.29.144. But on the download page itself and in the deb and rpm download link they are still referring to 4.28.184.

@leledumbo Wow, it works. Thank you for saving my day!

Simpler alternative to @yingyi's comment:

1. Log in from browser either directly there or through the button in the app
2. Open developer console, do it quickly if your browser saves your credentials
3. Right before it tries to execute xdg-open (a popup offering to open the app will appear), you will find a cancelled request in the network tab
4. Click that then copy the Request URL in Headers tab, it will be in the form of: slack://<some hash value>/magic-login/<some hash value>
5. Go back to Slack app, it will monitor the clipboard and find out the magic link then log you in automatically

for KDE user to resolve the problem that login not response:

first, the reson is kde that the kde-open5 from kde-cli-tools is doing some funky lower-casing on first element of URL (slack://A/B/C becomes slack://a/B/C).

1. run this in bash:

while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep slack | grep -v grep | grep magic; done

1. Try logging in to slack - accept login attempt in browser

2. You should see login link in console:

kde-open5 slack://WORKSPACE_ID/magic-login/...
/usr/lib/slack/slack --enable-crashpad slack://workspace_id/magic-login/...

1. Open the slack with correct link:

/usr/lib/slack/slack --enable-crashpad slack://WORKSPACE_ID/magic-login/...

Last, thanks for unbuntu friends from stackoverflow

I'm not sure if it's the latest update, but I also just reinstalled Arch.

I had to add --use-gl=desktop to the end of the command to make it not have horrible screen rendering on resizing and switching spaces, where it would flick weird random colours at me (thanks Electron <3). Using AMDGPU, both Mesa 22.1.7-1 and mesa-git had the same issue.

I made the following changes to get screensharing running on wayland:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index af27b76..74c710b 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,14 +13,19 @@ depends=('gtk3' 'libsecret' 'libxss' 'nss' 'xdg-utils')
 optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: Systray indicator support'
             'org.freedesktop.secrets: Keyring password store support')
 source=("https://downloads.slack-edge.com/releases/linux/${pkgver}/prod/x64/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb"
+        "slack.sh"
         "${pkgname}.patch")
 noextract=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")
 b2sums=('b7d457fcb6a2518eaea7efc4d7b43f01f8c1da8a1218d3c2c2c14e195004102be344c6f4e2b60dd4f4677e53ea976cb7b0b102e3e0eec385df881eecdee4a7cd'
+        'd39bba7db4e1854dbba2afefa5cc108ff698befaef65539a7f5b09581e81f753bdbdd091ed0df9470b99f2aa0eda0985874f01628b8974a458eef0df774ec404'
         'b5786265fcaf85be4134a444d5c2376f3b3753b667ac8b5237d74cbc643433148ec0a4f8ddfe65276d6029cc6941b464938e6c37f904c2369cbe14ca3f1819dd')

 package() {
     bsdtar -O -xf "slack-desktop-${pkgver}"*.deb data.tar.xz | bsdtar -C "${pkgdir}" -xJf -

+    # Fix screensharing on wayland
+    install -D "slack.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/slack"
+
     # Fix hardcoded icon path in .desktop file
     patch -d "${pkgdir}" -p1 <"${pkgname}".patch

diff --git a/slack.sh b/slack.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a402971
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slack.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+exec /usr/lib/slack/slack --enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer "$@"

@andy44 did you read the pinned comment? have you bothered to check if your system complies the prerequisites?