I have experienced 'freezes' with Skype 1.3 and read others have it too. I thought it worth a topic to share the solution: switch off animated emoticons, it causes the X server to eat up resources.

can you tell us what your hardware specs are and what Linux variant you're running?

deltatux

It's incredible but it looks like turning the animated emoticon solve the freeze problem.

It looks like this freeze problem is hitting a lot of users. It would be great to have a skype dev to look at this problem and clearly identify it, propose a work-around and fix the bug.

same problem in my environment:
Linux pmattivinb 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 11 01:16:59 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Xorg 7.1.1
disabling emoticons didn't solve it.

with version 1.3 I can't call/chat, it allways freezes.
So using version 1.2.018

The Problem is known and we are looking for a solution.

I have the problem myself.

Philipp

Thanx for infos, newly implemented functions are usefull (comparing to older version).
May I ask you this way if you plan to implement webcam support in linux version of skype (and when)?

You sould also consult with the Fedora community because the X server that is used in Fedora Core is still not that stable.

xboxrulz

I retract what I said, disabling the animated emoticon does not fix the problem. I seems better but it may be just luck.

What about a pinned/moderated topic in the Skype for linux forum where you would keep a status on this issue that is nothering a lot of linux user at this point.

Thanks,
Christophe

Running Mepis 6.0 on my laptop. Suddenly had problems with 1.2 so decided to upgrade to skype 1.3. Installed successfully. Can now see my contacts. Tried testing with Skype Test Call but it never connects. It obviously logs in and tries to connect but even with Skype Test Call it ends with "User not found". It often used to freeze, but it appears that selected oss instead of alsa seems to have reduced that.

Any help would be appreciated.