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Questions tagged [slack]

For questions about Slack, the cloud-based collaboration tool.

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Slack shows opened links to browser as another slack instance in task bar

If I open a link sent to me on Slack, the new browser window opened shows up as 'another' Slack window. Is there any way to have it correctly group the new browser window with the existing browser windows? I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 running gnome.
Jorge Huerta
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Slack suddenly stopped working on Ubuntu 20.04

I have been using Slack (Desktop App) for months now, without any problem. Today, for no apparent reason, the laptop (HP Envy) froze and since then Slack is not working anymore. It seems to try to launch, but then nothing. Any ideas?
Camila
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Ubuntu 18.10 Slack not working

I've updated to Ubuntu 18.10 yesterday. Now I can't find a version of Slack which isn't crashing. Tried the version from snap and also the download from the site. Has someone found a working version?
trickreich
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Slack refusing to start

from 30 minutes ago on slack refuses to start on my 20.04 box. Last thing i did before it stopped working was updating firefox to 102.0 but i'm not confident if this is related to it. I downloaded the recent slack 4.27.154 deb package from their…
plazmakeks
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Slack closes down on suspend

Running Ubuntu 21.04 on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 9th generation. When I suspend the computer, Slack closes down. Happens every time. Notified Slack, but wondering if anyone else here has encountered this. UPDATE: See below. Going back to 20.04.3 fixed the…
Dan Gillmor
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Slack misses tray indicator

I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04, I installed Slack but it doesn't show any icon in the tray indicator: ▶ snap info slack name: slack summary: Team communication for the 21st century. publisher: slack contact: …
rpadovani
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Unable to sign in to Slack snap app

I've done sudo snap install slack --classic and now have the Slack snap application (v. 4.1.2). When I run slack from the terminal, it opens the app, with the sign in button. Clicking this opens the Slack login page in my default browser (chromium,…
jaymullr
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Slack flickering and Rendering issue

We have graphical glitches on slack client on our Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS like screen flickering and rendering issues. We have tried to disable acceleration and to resize slack window but it does not work on the slack client.
amarjitkumar
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Screensharing (Slack, Hangouts) Blank Screen & Cursor On Ubuntu 17.10 (Wayland)

I've been using 17.10 with the default Desktop (Gnome/Wayland) for about a week and is running very smoothly except for one thing: I no longer can share my screen with the Slack Linux app or with Hangouts (in Chrome). The other party only sees a…
Attila Fulop
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Chrome and Slack do not render properly after wake from hibernation in Ubuntu 18.04

I am on Ubuntu 18.04. After I wake from hibernation, my chrome looks like this. Even when I open new tabs. It still does not render things properly. The only thing that works is closing all open windows of chrome and reopening the tabs. I have the…
Homero Esmeraldo
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Opening Slack logs my user out of ubuntu

As soon as I start slack app(snap) I get logged out of my user in Ubuntu 18.04. I will provide more info if I can check things before it logs me out. Can you please suggest how I check for some logs and also how to fix this issue. Here is a dmesg…
akxer
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Cannot drag and drop from nautilus to Chrome or Slack

I am on a brand new install of Ubuntu 22.04. I have chrome installed from deb and slack installed from snap. When I try to drag a file from nautilus into either of these applications it does not work. This did work fine for me in 21.10. Is there…
Scorb
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Broken fonts for code formatting blocks in slack and chrome in Ubuntu 18.04

After I changed some fonts in tweaks-tool, in some programs (Slack, Chrome) font formatting for blocks of code became broken. I tried to restore defaults, but fonts in code blocks still ugly. How it can be fixed? Ubuntu 18.04 Example of ugly code…
Анатолий Ибрагимов
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Slack icon not visible in top right corner in ubuntu

When I restart the Ubuntu system, slack application is not visible in the top right corner. How to solve that?
Saclt7
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Slack desktop client on 16.04 behind proxy server

I am trying to use the Slack desktop client for Ubuntu 16.04 behind a Websense Content Gateway (WCG) proxy. It will not connect. Notes: Windows workstations work with Slack client for Windows through the WCG proxy. Browser-based client works on…
James
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