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I think it should be reverted to electron17 then let's find out will it works with electron18

@lmartinez-mirror, latest version on AUR, 4.25.1-1. doesn't work with electron18 for me, :( Just a blank screen. I used electron17 back with it (by changing slack.sh, so it uses 17 instead of 18), and it does work, so the change to electron17 seems required.

Sure great, but update still won't work for me and only shows black screen. I'm using wayland with sway right now. I'll look for the problem later soon.

Error msg:

Error sending from webFrameMain: Error: Render frame was disposed before WebFrameMain could be accessed at EventEmitter.n.send (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:165:417) at EventEmitter.b.send (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:161:2494) at /usr/lib/slack/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:284:6544 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at /usr/lib/slack/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:284:6522 at /usr/lib/slack/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:123:7146 at /usr/lib/slack/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:110:21552 at /usr/lib/slack/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:285:922 at dispatch (/usr/lib/slack/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:110:18456) at Object.next (/usr/lib/slack/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:340:86455)

Confirmed that Slack launches with electron18. I think we should pin it to a specific version so that electron updates don't constantly break this package. We'll bump the electron package version once we can confirm it works.

4.25.1 now available

Thank you for adding me. I'll apply a172's patch as my first contribution.

If you use this package more often than I do, by all means!

@lmartinez-mirror Can I be Co-maintiner?

Thanks for the patch, I'll add this whenever I get a chance.

I updated the electron version to be version 17 to fix the issue @moot was talking about. Here is the diff:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index d3a87a2..7eed216 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,19 +3,19 @@

 pkgname=slack-electron
 pkgver=4.24.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux, using the system Electron package"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://slack.com/downloads"
 license=('custom:proprietary')
-depends=('electron')
+depends=('electron17')
 optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: for notification indicator in the status bar on GNOME')
 provides=("slack-desktop")
 conflicts=("slack-desktop")
 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.deb::https://downloads.slack-edge.com/releases/linux/$pkgver/prod/x64/slack-desktop-$pkgver-amd64.deb"
         'slack.sh')
 sha256sums=('2645bd4a319c7f7039efb6301ff9f7c790d28ca45a86f9e432ec8ba2580009d5'
-            '4db11d083626a561129ca40e9cce7cc613c42223f138bb0136c62064c57471fd')
+            'eddf0c5c6d50c01023a5095b591d4bfd99dc37d610bf494ed004b9212326a09d')

 prepare() {
        bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz
diff --git a/slack.sh b/slack.sh
index 083824f..78ca42a 100644
--- a/slack.sh
+++ b/slack.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh

-exec electron /usr/lib/slack/app.asar "$@"
+exec electron17 /usr/lib/slack/app.asar "$@"