Questions tagged [slack]

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

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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.
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How do I launch Slack on startup Ubuntu 20.04?

How do I launch Slack on startup Ubuntu 20.04? Do I need to configure it manually as I do with some other programs, or is there a special option in Slack to do it for me?
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Voice calls in Slack Desktop stopped working

I'm curious if someone still can make voice calls from Slack's desktop client from Ubuntu 14.04? And if so what did you do to make them working? Although, voice call from the same machine via Chromium is working. It was okay before slack…
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Slack 3.4.2 not opening on Ubuntu 16.04

I tried installing the .deb file from the Slack website and installing via snap. (Running sudo apt remove slack-desktop in between) But both times nothing happens when I try to run slack from the terminal. When I search for and run slack in the…
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Ubuntu Slack - how to copy/paste/save/export Slack messages?

Is there a good way to copy/paste/save/export Slack chat messages with the Ubuntu Slack version? Ref. this page https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data#business+-plan-1 the company I work for has the Business+ Plan, but…
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Where is Slack after an Ubuntu upgrade?

I've just upgraded to VERSION="21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) and Slack seems to have disappeared from both my Favourites and when I click on Show Applications. It's installed as a Snap package and I can launch it but: how do I return it to Show…
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Slack 4.9.1 not launching in 20.04 LTS

Despite installing it many a times, slack doesn't start upon launching it. tried many ways but no luck! please help!
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How to install slack desktop 2.6.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.05 LTS?

My issue was that even after I downloaded slack, and I did: cd ~/Downloads dpkg -i slack-desktop-2.6.3-amd64.deb I got errors about missing libappindicator1. So I do the next logical thing right? sudo apt-get install libappindicator1, this too…
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