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dmpogo Advocate
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:39 am Post subject: skypeforlinux-8.13.0.2 - does it work for you ? |
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skypeforlinux-8.13.0.2 does not work for me - signup blue screen appears, and then goes all white (with menubar on top). skypeforlinux-8.11.0.4 works ok. what is your experience ?
I am with kde-plasma, so all gnome-keyring dependencies had to be emerged, and there is a chance may be misconfigured, but what else can I look at ? |
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Fitzcarraldo Advocate
Joined: 30 Aug 2008 Posts: 2034 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 1:48 am Post subject: |
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The latest stable version of Skype Preview for Linux ( Version 8.13.0.2 ) is running well in Lubuntu 17.10 (LXDE) on my family's tower PC with external USB Webcam with built-in microphone.
The latest unstable version of Skype Preview for Linux ( Version 8.13.76.8 ) is running well in Gentoo amd64 arch and KDE on my Clevo W230SS laptop with internal Webcam and microphone.
Have you tried Version 8.13.76.8? I use the ebuild from the Rion overlay.
(The Microsoft repository for the unstable version is https://repo.skype.com/rpm/unstable/ and the Microsoft repository for the stable version is https://repo.skype.com/rpm/stable/). _________________ Clevo W230SS: amd64, VIDEO_CARDS="intel modesetting nvidia".
Compal NBLB2: ~amd64, xf86-video-ati. Dual boot Win 7 Pro 64-bit.
OpenRC udev elogind & KDE on both.
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dmpogo Advocate
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3264 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Fitzcarraldo wrote: | The latest stable version of Skype Preview for Linux ( Version 8.13.0.2 ) is running well in Lubuntu 17.10 (LXDE) on my family's tower PC with external USB Webcam with built-in microphone.
The latest unstable version of Skype Preview for Linux ( Version 8.13.76.8 ) is running well in Gentoo amd64 arch and KDE on my Clevo W230SS laptop with internal Webcam and microphone.
Have you tried Version 8.13.76.8? I use the ebuild from the Rion overlay.
(The Microsoft repository for the unstable version is https://repo.skype.com/rpm/unstable/ and the Microsoft repository for the stable version is https://repo.skype.com/rpm/stable/). |
Thanks, I was just trying what Gentoo portage make available. I'll play 8.13.76.8 out of tree, while keeping 8.11 for now. |
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dmpogo Advocate
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3264 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Fitzcarraldo wrote: | The latest stable version of Skype Preview for Linux ( Version 8.13.0.2 ) is running well in Lubuntu 17.10 (LXDE) on my family's tower PC with external USB Webcam with built-in microphone.
The latest unstable version of Skype Preview for Linux ( Version 8.13.76.8 ) is running well in Gentoo amd64 arch and KDE on my Clevo W230SS laptop with internal Webcam and microphone.
Have you tried Version 8.13.76.8? I use the ebuild from the Rion overlay.
(The Microsoft repository for the unstable version is https://repo.skype.com/rpm/unstable/ and the Microsoft repository for the stable version is https://repo.skype.com/rpm/stable/). |
Alas, 8.13.76.8 did not work for me as well The difference with 8.13.0.2 is that after blue login and white screen, it goes back to blue, get white again,
does it 4 times and then quits. Something with my KDE perhaps |
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Fred Krogh Veteran
Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 1036 Location: Tujunga, CA
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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skypeforlinux-8.13.0.2 works for me, but can't see my video camera. Previous versions did, and mplayer does. |
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dmpogo Advocate
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3264 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Fred Krogh wrote: | skypeforlinux-8.13.0.2 works for me, but can't see my video camera. Previous versions did, and mplayer does. |
I did manage to get it run past login screen on other two machines I have, but there it follows bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/644296 failing to detect speakers and microphone, but detecting camera on my pure ALSA setup (no pulseaudio) |
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10B2 n00b
Joined: 28 May 2013 Posts: 65
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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skypeforlinux crashes also on my system (kernel 4.9.72, fluxbox 1.3.7-r3 and pulseaudio 11.1). Also tried with the official versions for linux (deb and rpm)...no success.
Last working version of skype was 4.3, but now a message comes up telling you about an updated version and you are not allowed to skip such update.
Any clue to get my skype meeting back? |
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Rion Guru
Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 382 Location: Minsk, Belarus
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:14 am Post subject: |
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10B2 wrote: | Any clue to get my skype meeting back? |
I usually keep a virtual machine for this. For Lync/Skype for Business particularly. _________________ rion-overlay |
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10B2 n00b
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Have a windows guest VM, but that's not the solution.
Also had a try to skypeforlinux-8.13.76.8 from rion overlay...no way |
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Massimo B. Veteran
Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1759 Location: PB, Germany
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 9:27 am Post subject: |
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I'm using net-im/skypeforlinux for usual Skype contacts and x11-plugins/pidgin-sipe for Skype for Business (formerly Lync). The latter still has issues with Voice calls, but works for basic chat. _________________ HP ZBook Power 15.6" G8 i7-11800H|HP EliteDesk 800G1 i7-4790|HP Compaq Pro 6300 i7-3770 |
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Blind_Sniper Guru
Joined: 20 Apr 2018 Posts: 336
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Skypeforlinux doesn't work for me, when I trying to log in window goes white and throws me back to login/password prompt.
So I switched to skype.com web-interface |
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HenryW n00b
Joined: 07 Sep 2018 Posts: 2
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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It works more or less, I think I don't have enough computing power for Skype.
i5 with 6gb seems to be too small for the power-hungry window system. |
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Fitzcarraldo Advocate
Joined: 30 Aug 2008 Posts: 2034 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:53 am Post subject: |
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HenryW wrote: | It works more or less, I think I don't have enough computing power for Skype.
i5 with 6gb seems to be too small for the power-hungry window system. |
One of my Linux machines has a dual-core Pentium G2030 (3GHz) with 4GB RAM, and skypeforlinux-8.29.0.50 runs very well (including video calls), so your hardware spec. should be more than adequate to run Skype for Linux. _________________ Clevo W230SS: amd64, VIDEO_CARDS="intel modesetting nvidia".
Compal NBLB2: ~amd64, xf86-video-ati. Dual boot Win 7 Pro 64-bit.
OpenRC udev elogind & KDE on both.
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