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Skype-Wrapper Gets a PPA for Easy Installation
Handy Skype plugin ‘Skype-Wrapper’ is now available to install from its own PPA.
The tool helps to integrate popular VoIP client Skype with the Ubuntu desktop.
Skype Wrapper Adds Unity Features, Menu Avatars and Extra Settings
Skype Wrapper, the third-party Skype plugin that integrates the VoIP client into Ubuntu, has been updated for the second time in less than week.
Skype Messaging Menu Plugin Gets Updated
Skype Wrapper, a third-party plugin that integrates VoIP client Skype with Ubuntu’s Messaging Menu, has been updated with a handful of new features.
[How To] Add Skype to The Ubuntu Messaging Menu
Skype – the most parochial of IM apps, but one many of us can’t do without. In Ubuntu 11.10 Skype uses an ‘indicator applet‘ to display its tray menu and presence. The use of an indicator-applet makes for a consistent user-experience across the top panel, with all menus behaving the same way (i.e click > menu): – But [...]
[How to] Enable tabbed conversations in Skype for Linux
There’s no question that tabbed interfaces – be they in a web browser or chat application – help to streamline multitasking and window management.
VoIP application Skype, seemingly seeing the benefits of such interfaces, recently introduced ‘all-in-one’ windows into their Windows and OS X clients. Skype for Linux on the other hand still sports the traditional multi-window interface.
Enter SkypeTab, which enables tabbed conversations in Skype on Linux
Skype crashed today? Here’s a fix
Many Ubuntu users have been experiencing a bizarre crash issues with VoIP service Skype today whereby the application crashes then fails to start again.
Reader Dipish hunted down a fix and mailed it in to share with you folks.
Microsoft will ‘invest and support’ Skype on non-Microsoft platforms
Microsoft have pledged to ‘invest in and support’ Skype builds on non-Microsoft platforms, the company has confimed.
Microsoft purchasing Skype – what could this mean for Linux?
Microsoft are close to sealing a $8.5 billion deal to acquire internet-telephony service Skype, according to allthingsd.
But what would this mean for the Linux client? We guess nothing – which isn’t exactly anything new…
How to Add and control Skype via the Ubuntu Messaging Menu
A day or two back we ran a nifty how-to feature on controlling Skype from your instant messaging application in Ubuntu 11.04.
This approach integrated your Skype contacts into your Empathy or Pidgin buddy list, but also told you how to ‘hide’ the lurid green icon from the system tray.
Whilst many of you found this a neat tip a number of you weren’t so keen to give up easy access to Skype itself and sought something a little less final – such as adding Skype to the Ubuntu Messaging Menu.
Run Skype as a daemon and manage it from Empathy or Pidgin in Ubuntu 11.04
Gzap stopped by the OMG! Ubuntu! inbox to drop off a tip that unifies Skype and Empathy; by installing the pidgin-skype plugin from the Ubuntu Software Centre you can manage your Skype contacts from the buddy-list of Ubuntu’s default IM client Emapthy.
New Skype beta for Linux improves call quality, adds Skype Access
A new beta release of internet telephony application Skype is available.
And about time too, eh?
How to control Skype from Docky
Managing your Skype chats and controlling you Skype status with Dock application ‘Docky’ is simple.
How to re-enable notification area applets in Ubuntu 11.04
Can’t live without Shutter/Dropbox/Opera/insert-other-app-here sitting in Natty’s system panel? Quick fix ahoy.
Natty sound menu adds microphone slider for Skype calls
Bid a fond farewell to faint false-starts in your Skype calls: Ubuntu 11.04 has added a microphone level slider to the Ubuntu Sound Menu.
SkypeKit Launch Could bring Skype video calling to your favourite apps
Skype’s launch of a new Software Development Kit that offers both software and hardware developers the ability to integrate Skype functionality into their own applications and devices promises to bring a big boon to Linux users. The SDK provides developers with both API’s for the main Skype feature set (chat, messaging, video, etc) as well [...]