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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 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?

Need patch to run this PKGBUILD

$ makepkg -sri                                                                                                                                                               
==> Making package: slack-desktop 4.27.154-1 (Thu 30 Jun 2022 11:07:28)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found slack-desktop-4.27.154-amd64.deb
  -> Found slack-desktop.patch
==> Validating source files with b2sums...
    slack-desktop-4.27.154-amd64.deb ... Passed
    slack-desktop.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
/home/<user>/aur-programs/slack-desktop/PKGBUILD: line 25: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

Anyone else experiencing tray/notification issues?

When the app is minimized to the tray and I get a message, I get a desktop notification with the "View Msg" "link" and when I click it, it does bring the app to the foreground, but it also bring the next app in the tray (in this case qbittorrent) to the foreground.

I haven't looked at code, but I would imagine there's probably 2 code paths doing the same thing to bring the app to the front, but in 1 path there's an off-by-one error?

@lostpolaris thanks you saved my day :) I was not able to add another workspace otherwise.

Opening multiple workplaces at the same time works for me.

For anyone who is using KDE as their environment, here is a solution to help you log in through the desktop app

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70867064/signing-into-slack-desktop-not-working-on-4-23-0-64-bit-ubuntu

Hi,

leaving this here since it bummed me out for a longer time:

With 4.23 and even 4.24 Google SSO did not work for me anymore as @33Fraise33 suggested on another thread, what works is opening the SSO link in Firefox instead of Chrome.

I also noticed 4.23.0 not working with my companies SSO. I had to downgrade back to 4.21.1 to get slack working again.