i am a very new Linux and Skype user. On my PC/Vista I have no trouble searching for contacts by full name etc. The same search on my laptop/Linux does not find the person. I have checked all countries/regions etc even putting in a correct username does not work but I do get some results.

I am totally baffled, I am no computer expert just an ordinary user. As I am going to NZ I really want to be able to use Skype on my laptop to keep in touch with home.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks for interesting contrast.. Certainly recently I've not had much luck searching and was glad to find option to simply add a userid. Presumably/hopefully once found & added with Windoze, they remain in profile when running under GNU/Linux..

Thank you. Yes if I find them in Windows they are there when using Linux.