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killall skype && skype
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/usr/bin/skype --dbpath=.config/Skype/SkypeDB
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cd /usr/share/skype && exec ./skype
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xhost +local: && su skype -c skype
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Linux Skype alternative similar to Windows Skype?

QuteCom, previously known as WengoPhone: http://www.qutecom.org/
[EDIT]: It has its own network and user database. I don't think it is compatible with Skype if that is your point.

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Linux Skype: how to show contacts who are offline?

Pres CTRL+U to hide/unhide offline contacts.

It worked in Linux Skype 2.2.0.25

Reference:

Hide offline contacts in contact list window

I hope this helps !

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Ubuntu, Bluetooth headset and Skype

Well Ubuntu 9.04 comes with Pulseaudio and my Plantronics Voyager 520 works fine with Skype by just connecting it over the Bluetooth Icon in the Gnome taskbar (Bluetooth Icon Right click -> Set up new device... then Pair with Headset, PIN is usually 0000 and then set trust mode in the preferences). After choosing headset as the sound device in the Skype options the test call was working without problems.

In 8.10 it didn't work right away but by I could make the headset available in Skype by following this tutorial.

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regex edit in skype?

The regexp feature does not work on Windows. It works on the Linux and Mac version though. It's a pretty neat feature, you can also hold Control-click (Mac) and select Edit from the context menu on a message to edit it.

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Where does Skype save my contact's avatars in Linux?

This Skype forum thread is about avatars: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=99471.

  • First, they discuss some commands that allow you saving avatars from Skype cache with it public interface through it doesn't apparently work on Linux. I don't know if they fixed that interface already, and that's not what your question is about.
  • Second, one Skype dev said that all images are stored in JPEG format and provide a header in hex (JFIF). grep'ing hexdump of all Skype files with the for i in *; do echo $i; hd $i | grep 'ff d8 ff e0'; done command revealed many occurences of this header in .Skype/userNNN.dbb files where NNN is some number. This files have some absolutely undocumented, proprietary format and are probably keeping all cached information about users; you can extract avatars themselves by scanning for header and then copying everything until end of file to other file. All image viewers will skip any data after the image itself (a technology RARJPG is based on), and if you want to remove junk out of them you can "modify" it without modifying e.g. with imagemagick and command convert file.jpg file_clean.jpg. ImageMagick behaves as described viewer: it reads image, skips anything that follow it and then writes only image itself.
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best open source software for voice chat in linux

I think GTalk works on linux... Look at Tapioca
Look at the Telepathy client for gnome.

Here is a link to the GTalk client reference page.
And the Pidgin FAQ.

Try Pidgin first.

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Linux Skype issue. How to work with Pulseaudio in Ubuntu Karmic and/or Hardy?

In my sound preferences, I have 'PulseAudio server(local)' for Mic, Speakers, Ringing. And it works. I don't think I had to configure anything manually. Try reinstalling skype maybe.

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Linux: Install Skype 4.0 but keep 2.2?

Try virtualbox. Install the new version in a VM.

As for the searching of the lost file, enter the command in a shell:

locate *Skype*.deb

or

locate *skype*.deb

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How to get better Skype notifications in Ubuntu?

xfce4-notifyd has an option to set its theme, transparency, and time before it disappears.

I personally had to uninstall the previous notify daemon to set the new one as default...


If you're using notify osd (gnome-notify), GUI tools to customise it can be found here.

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Showing Skype's Main Window in Ubuntu

You should have a system tray in Ubuntu too. Anyway try to install trayer (a stand-alone system tray), just for a debugging purpose.

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