Package Details: slack-electron 4.47.69-2

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/slack-electron.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: slack-electron
Description: Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux, using the system Electron package
Upstream URL: https://slack.com/downloads/linux
Keywords: desktop electron slack
Licenses: LicenseRef-SlackProprietary
Conflicts: slack-desktop
Provides: slack-desktop
Submitter: WhiredPlanck
Maintainer: carsme
Last Packager: carsme
Votes: 34
Popularity: 1.55
First Submitted: 2020-07-05 17:00 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-03-29 17:45 (UTC)

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je-vv commented on 2025-09-19 02:39 (UTC)

Just in case electron 38 and newer 4.46.96 slack seem to finally have stabilize slack for x11 on my side.

je-vv commented on 2025-08-26 08:09 (UTC)

Anyone experiencing issues with screen sharing on X11? Latest version 4.45.64...

je-vv commented on 2025-08-16 08:15 (UTC)

Oh, current Arch electron 37 already removed the work around using --gtk-version=3, so when moving to electron 37, please remove it from slack.sh. BTW, 4.45.64 running with electron 36 without that electron argument works just fine for me, so not sure when the work around stopped being necessary. See the last Arch electron commit about it.

je-vv commented on 2025-08-16 08:09 (UTC)

@furai are you using latest electron 37.3.0 (there's electron37-bin AUR package, already 37.3.0)? If using 37.3.0 you are right, slack-electron works just fine. But if using current Arch stock package, still is 37.2.6, then it always fail for me (I use it for work, not sure if at work there's something used that provokes the behaviors on older 37 versions). So I'm forcing /usr/bin/slack to use electron36 since I don't like using binary packages (-bin) when I can avoid it. NO issues with me if when upgrading this package to 4.45.64 it's moved to electron 37. Actually I packaged it myself like that any ways.

furai commented on 2025-08-15 09:43 (UTC) (edited on 2025-08-15 10:56 (UTC) by furai)

Dunno, for me it didn't want to compile with electron36, I had to switch PKGBUILD to use electron37, then it built correctly and I was able to run it. I'm on X11 and everything works without issues here.

je-vv commented on 2025-08-13 20:31 (UTC)

@furai, just in case I packaged 4.45.64 myself using electron37, it packages ok, but it doesn't work at least on x11. IT gets into a loop of themes it seems, and never ends up showing anything. I changed slack.sh to use electron36 and that works well.

So there's no issue with 4.45.64 and electron36. At the contrary I see issues with 4.45.64 and electron37.

Bottom line I don't get the association of the upgrade with electron37. 4.45.64 works well with electron36, so it could have been upgraded before electron37 showed up, and actually I'd advise against using electron37 at least on x11.

furai commented on 2025-08-13 15:36 (UTC)

Can we get this updated now that Arch officially supports electron 37? https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/electron37/

furai commented on 2025-07-28 06:41 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-28 10:19 (UTC) by furai)

Any chance in getting this updated?

EDIT: Oh, I see the problem, they've used newer electron and default electron in arch is still 36.

EDIT2: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/electron37/-/merge_requests/1 This is probably blocking.

furai commented on 2025-05-16 14:01 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-16 14:10 (UTC) by furai)

Newest slack beta 4.44.60 uses electron36. To make it work one needs to change slack.sh to specify gtk version used by slack (on top of bumping the electron version), so slack.sh should look like:

#!/bin/sh

exec electron@ELECTRON_VERSION@ --gtk-version=3 /usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar "$@"

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