Skype 2.2 Beta for Linux
Skype 2.2 Beta for Linux, codenamed ‘Access Granted’, is here and brings Skype Access to our Linux users. Skype Access lets you connect to over 500,000 WiFi hotspots worldwide using your Skype Credit.
We’ve improved audio and video quality and reliability, and have addressed the ‘multiple calls’ scenario: you can now receive a second call while a call is ongoing; you can hold and answer it or join the two calls into a conference call.
Finally we fixed a number of problems identified by our internal and external users:
- Ubuntu users experienced PulseAudio issues with the latest versions
- KDE users experienced graphic issues using the default Oxygen style
- and many more – check our release notes
Don’t forget to read the known issues list and to use the forum for the most critical issues you may encounter trying this new release.
Enjoy!
Marco and the Skype for Linux team
Great
Great! Skype for Linux still looks like a dumb load of s”!$.
I haven’t tested it yet, but thanks for releasing a new version
it took you 1 year and 3 months to get from version 2.1 to 2.2??? congrats..
dont work that fast, too much work will kill you!
we want to see version 5.1 (you know, the one that win users enjoy) , and not a BETA version!
Hello, firstly I AM SO PROUD OF YOU GUYS!!! YOU UPDATED! WOOT!
BUT…. blah. On the download page you call it Ubuntu 10.4 which doesn’t make any sense. The release versioning is YY.MM. Unless it was released in the *Fortieth* month of the Tenth year… no. It is Ubuntu 10.04, please fix this type. Other than that, Thanks! keep up the good work!
Ubuntu 10.10
Audio only call is ok.
Video testing and video monitor is ok for the first time! Never worked before for me.
But logs off (closes current user session) when starts receiving video!…
sonick_rnd commented Thursday, Apr 7
Отличное обновление:
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Could not launch ‘Skype’
Failed to execute child process “skype-wrapper” (No such file or directory)
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just delete -wrapper
Re “Failed to execute child process “skype-wrapper” (No such file or directory)” error on Skype startup. I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 64bit. Changing command from skype-wrapper to skype in the Skype launcher fixed this issue.
@vlad_oz74
Again some left overs from random packages, be sure to uninstall first those!
How about Fedora 64bit package?
Glad to see linux version isn’t dead as it may seem from rare updates. Do you plan to invest any effort in reducing wakeups from idle though? Skype wakes up much more often than Quassel IRC client while it’s open doing nothing (as in no chats or calls active). I find myself exciting Skype when on battery for that reason.
Great, it works perfect on my Ubuntu Box of Lucid Lynx.
thanks, here is one happy linux user on debian 64bit that now can install skype with minimum hassle great Everything worked out of the box – like it should
Maybe one day it will come out of beta…
Using Ubuntu 10.10.
Audio calls are ok.
Video testing and monitor are working. They didn’t work with previous version.
When start receiving video Skype crashes and causes Ubuntu to end session. (log off).
Thanks, guys! Good to get the update. And thanks, also, for keeping it a light, clean interface. So far, it is working well on a couple of Ubuntu 10.10 systems I’m running, one in 32-bit, one in 64-bit.
i liked the idea of a libskype thingy that empathy, pidgin and others could use. this way you guys wouldn’t be hated for sucky UI integration.
I was quite shocked to see this update.
You guys should probably stress that the version numbers across different platforms don’t match up. Aka Skype v2 on windows is not what we on Linux have now.
Just make group chat and calls a bit beefier and I’ll be satisfied with the software as is.
@cowanh00 Amen! Lodato sia il Signore
I think the design of this blog gets updated more often than the product you talk about. I think the design changed 2 times since last release post.
Where is a contact’s secondary or thrid phone number? Not that different from 2.1 beta to me.
The Skype (Beta) 2.2.0.25 pgrade pushed out by Canonical for Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS fails to launch. The message is:
Could not launch ‘Skype’
Failed to execute child process “skype-wrapper” (No such file or directory)
A binary called skype-wrapper installed by the earlier version of Skype from the Canonical repository was apparently deleted by the upgrade, but it failed to install a replacement launcher in the Applications menu. It’s poor testing before release to the user base.
Also, Skype still doesn’t show up in the Indicator Applet on the panel, and if one closes its GUI window by clicking on the “X” in the upper right corner, Skype is left running in the background as a sleeping zombie program, consuming CPU resources; one must resort to the System Monitor to “kill” it to shut it down. Chording (Ctrl+Q) with the keyboard while the Skype window is in focus doesn’t work either. If one attempts to click on the launcher in the Applications Menu to bring up the GUI, it fails, because it detects the previous instance of Skype running. One must be very careful to only shut Skype down with the Quit command in its drop-down menu only. This is not user-friendly at all. It’s the only Linux program of which I know that has this nasty behavior.
@global.talker
First of all skype-wrapper is not installed by us, but by some random packages you found somewhere else in the past, probably mediubuntu?
So not our fault.
Secondly Skype does not close clicking on X and the process does NOT become a zombie, you just did NOT close it, but minimized.
If you do not know any other program that does like that means you are pretty new to Linux, I know dozens like:
- Amarok and Kopete are one of these from KDE world
- Pidgin I am sure is the same from GNOME world
In my Squeeze+KDE 64bit, webcam (Creative VF0350) only works if started with the command:
LD_PRELOAD = / usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
The audio is better than 2.1 and the fonts are more readable.
Grazie 1000 Marco, se passi da Bologna fai un fischio che ti invito a cena!
@vannaraptus
Io sono di Bologna e passero’ molto presto, per Pasqua
How about 64bit version for Fedora?
Thank you so much! Please blog more so we know what is going on
Bravo
Ehh… Even don’t know, are here any reason to ask to make support of OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris OSs
Dear Skype Developers, you have to spread list of supported OSs or change the strategy
You can miss a big market of Oracle Enterprise users that want to pay and use Skype.
Ubuntu 10.10 64 Bit: The thing crashes every time I turn on the video on a call!!!
Where can I at least download v2.1?
Fedora 64bit?
Have to say that Skype is brilliant.
(When it gets fedora 64 bit support)
Both audio and video work very well for me using Fedora 14 and pulseaudio. It looks like pulseaudio is integrated better now than in the previous beta. Cheers.
skype 2.2 on my samsung N150 Ubuntu 10.04 dot work! Can I reinstall old version? (2.1 was working fine) Where I can find old versions of skype linux?? sorry for my english
the webcam is so dark, and even if I fix the global settings of the webcam using guvcview still skype does not get affected !
Thanks, I use Skype about 5 times a week to family in the UK and this new version is much more stable.
With the current increase in Linux usage I hope we will see more frequent updates. While most of the windows “extras” are fluff to my mind, I could really do with a “snapshot” button, and having the Chat and video together in one window would also be useful.
before update, my camera never refresh, now it keeps refreshing and my video quality drop significanly. use asus EEEPC 1005
The only thing I miss now is the possibility of being able to join an ongoing group skype voice conversation without the host having to call you.
The old version 2.1 worked well in Ubuntu both 32 and 64. New crushes all the time and camera does not work again…
Why is the Linux Client way behind the MS Windows one?!
I have this to say to everyone that is complaining.
If you don’t like it, go back to Windows. Quit being sniveling crybabies. Programmers, and troubleshooters have a thankless job. With the negative responses I have seen in this thread, I wouldn’t be surprised if you don’t see Skype 3.0 for about 5 years. Look at your system settings, and make sure all is OK there, before you insist that is the software.You don’t like “beta”? Wait for a “stable” release. You know what they say about a few bad apples spoiling the bunch. Keep it up, and I’ll bet the shut down Skype for Linux development for good. Look, It’s a free program, that runs on a free operating system. Seriously, quit your bitching.
Bugreport: screen sharing with GNOME compositing enabled results in a darker screen being shared, as if obscured by a semi-transparent window.
Note: I’m _not_ talking about Compiz or xcompmgr, but about the bare-bones GNOME feature, set via
gconftool-2 -s ‘/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager’ –type bool true
System: Ubuntu 10.10 x86, GNOME 2.32, Skype 2.2
Apart from that, great release! Cool to see things moving; I hope more is in the pipe…
@brian.snapp: Waiting for a stable release would be more fun if there _was_ a stable release available. If you spent two minutes looking around, you’d notice that no stable release has been available for download for a year and a half now. And no, skype crashing whenever a chat window opens or the webcam not working (even if it works in any other software) is not a problem with “system settings”. And bug reports are not bitching. Get rid of that attitude, it’s arrogant.
Questo è fantastico! Molte grazie.
Glad to see a new Linux release. Please keep the development going.
Try looking for 2.1 version – it works.
if microsoft buy skype, we won’t have never an improvement of our skype for linux… goodbye :/
With Microsoft buying Skype, I wonder if this is the last version we’ll ever see. I also wonder how long it takes until they block the Linux client entirery from the network.
One important News and One Question: Microsoft is buying Skype! What is the Future of Skype Linux? Is it the Death of the Skype Open Source Idea? Please tell us something about that!
Ok, I understand: You can’t write a stable program in X years (Skype Linux is a joke as a developer-team. Don’t be insulted, compare yourself to the others…) You could at least break your chains (just before you will be fired by Microsoft!) and tell us whats going on…Please!
Why fedora has no 64bit version?
Wow, Redmond is now in charge. Will that speed up the Skype 4 Linux development? MMmm.
Hi there. So, what’s the word on how Skype for Linux will be developed now that Microsoft are going to be in control?
As it is I’m still on 2.1.0.81 as anything more recent doesn’t work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Would be nice, if you released a stable version before Remond takes over. The current beta is not satisfying. There are some advantages over 2.1 concerning general sound and video quality. But there are also draw backs: Skype seems to have problems with staying online for a long time. After a while (may be, not sure, due to broken network connections in the meantime) it pretents to be connected, althought it is not. Reconnecting does not work, the only thing which brings Skype back online then is killing the skype process and a new start. Further more the video is jumping a little around with the zoom. Also the general camera angle which is shown seems to differ from the last beta. I would be nice if zoom and camera angle could be configured like in the Windows version. I also would like to see contact import like in the windows version from Facebook and csv-files.
Mystery solved. Microsoft now bought skype, so , dont expect to have a new release.
It was nice. This is the end…
Sure hope the M$ deal won’t put an end to the Linux version…