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For those wondering, using this version to get slack to run under wayland did NOT work for me (i.e. changing /user/bin/slack with the chromium flags --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland). Kind of expected, but at least worth a try.

@mvdan A request for making it an orphan package is already pending. Once the request goes through, other users can take over the package and push new changes.

What can be done to get this package updated and/or integrate @qubidt's changes?

Updated the PKGBUILD to fix the issues others mentioned. Also updated slack versions and moved the installation directory to /usr/lib to make it more consistent with other electron packages. Not sure which change specifically fixed the issue but I can "sign in" successfully now.

slack-electron AUR diff:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 832ec5a..1a86dfd 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Vyacheslav Konovalov <f4f7l1hvr@relay.firefox.com>

 pkgname=slack-electron
-pkgver=4.11.3
+pkgver=4.12.2
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux, modified to use the system 'electron' package instead of its own"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -14,22 +14,24 @@ provides=('slack' 'slack-desktop')
 conflicts=('slack-desktop')
 source=("https://downloads.slack-edge.com/linux_releases/slack-desktop-$pkgver-amd64.deb"
         'slack.sh')
-sha256sums=('03b7fbc8d2f3cdc70be8533dfb09a6fd3e7c2f428e97df27830b0712f479a67c'
-            'ee973ec37027e96e140499cb85dd9587c9dab59bea5a240112c3792bd61a5846')
+sha256sums=('1b9b90234efc37b01b84426ce9aff5ec7a22e4349dc2f60b3354ffb6dac4c38b'
+            '4db11d083626a561129ca40e9cce7cc613c42223f138bb0136c62064c57471fd')

 prepare() {
   bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz

   # Enable slack silent mode and fix icon
-  sed -ri 's|^(Exec=.+/slack)(.+)|\1 -s\2|' $srcdir/usr/share/applications/slack.desktop
-  sed -ri 's/^Icon=.+slack\.png/Icon=slack/' $srcdir/usr/share/applications/slack.desktop
+  sed -ri 's|^(Exec=.+/slack)(.+)|\1 -s\2|' $srcdir/usr/share/applications/${pkgname%-electron}.desktop
+  sed -ri 's/^Icon=.+slack\.png/Icon=slack/' $srcdir/usr/share/applications/${pkgname%-electron}.desktop
 }

 package() {
-  install -Dm755 slack.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/slack"
-  install -Dm644 usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/slack"
-  cp -r usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar.unpacked "$pkgdir/usr/share/slack"
+  install -Dm755 slack.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/${pkgname%-electron}"
+
+  install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/${pkgname%-electron}/"
+  cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership usr/lib/slack/resources/* "$pkgdir/usr/lib/${pkgname%-electron}/"
+
   install -Dm644 usr/share/applications/slack.desktop -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
   install -Dm644 usr/share/pixmaps/slack.png -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps"
-  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/lib/slack/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/slack/LICENSE"
+  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/lib/slack/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname%-electron}/LICENSE"
 }
diff --git a/slack.sh b/slack.sh
index 393104d..083824f 100644
--- a/slack.sh
+++ b/slack.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
+#!/bin/sh

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

I had the same problem. Then I quit my job and removed slask. Problem solved.

This one won't login for me, after I click "Sign In" it brings me to the website which then tells me to login, which I do, then it tells me it wants to open Slack, and when it does it just opens a new instance telling me to sign in.

I removed this version and installed slack-desktop and it worked perfectly the first time.

Using '#!/usr/bin/env sh' in the shebang is pointless, because bash is a hard dependency of pacman. Everyone will always have it installed, so you may as well just refer directly to /bin/bash.

Do you really need https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=slack-electron#n31?

When I remove that line, slack still works

@jdraymon I confirm.

Couldn't get the login on this version (9c99ffddf064) to work - magic login with the regular slack-desktop worked fine.

Looks like it processes the magic link but then restarts, clearing the login. unclear if it's this package or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electron-ozone .

Took some startup logs, can provide if someone wants them.