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Downgrade skype to 2.2

Asked by jpuxan

Today my skype was updated to version 4. But I cannot share my screen with this version, there is no error message, but it's not working. I had no problem with the previous version.

Is there any way to install previous version?

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you can find a deb for it then yes. Did you try renaming the skype config folder in $HOME ?

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jpuxan (jpuxan) said : 		#2

Thank you very much!!

Moving .Skype folder did the trick

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

It resets the config to default, can help if old configs don't work in new apps.

Skype is a complete mess (in any OS), I suggest you look into alternatives

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You can clean up by deleting the folder you renamed to, it's not needed now :)

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jpuxan (jpuxan) said : 		#5

I've been looking for alternatives, but I cannot find any that have videocalling and screen sharing for free, and that supports linux and mac. I tried webEx, but is not working very well and is web based, which I do not like.
Do you know any other good alternatives?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Ekiga is pretty sweet

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jpuxan (jpuxan) said : 		#7

According to the feature list, it does not have screen sharing, but thank you anyway.