The Ubuntu bug report for electron https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/41839 mentions a temporary fix that does work on my machine by running the app.asar with electron29 (though this does end up using a separate user data location so you have to relogin).
This command worked for me
electron29 /usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar
.
I'm not particularly well-versed with AUR/PKGBUILDs myself but I wonder if manually replacing the bundled electron with electron29 (or older) in the package would un-bork this. Alternatively, hold on updates until this gets fixed.
EDIT: I completely forgot that slack-electron exists.
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ogarcia commented on 2020-02-06 11:44 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-06 11:44 (UTC) by ogarcia)
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
orpatch
or whatever, please read the wiki.