[mhvlug] New Skype won't work on my system

[Michael Muller]

Jack Chastain wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Mark Wallace <rmarkwallace at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > If she has to install a plug in, she may not be able to do it on a
> > computer cafe system.
> >
> 
> To my knowledge, you need to install the GoogleTalk plugin to use Google
> Video Chat - and I know I cannot install it on my work system, so I am
> going to guess it won't work for her unless she can either get the plugin
> installed, or it is already there. If she can get it or it is there though,
> I agree - it usually works pretty well.

Yeah, I figured that since the computers there had Skype installed there
might be at least a chance they'd have the G-Talk plugin installed.  I'd at
least give it a try if you both have g-mail accounts.

> 
> JackC
> 
> 
> > On 08/15/2012 06:03 PM, Michael Muller wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Wallace wrote:
> >>
> >>> I teleconference with my fiancee on Skype every Friday Night.  She goes
> >>> to a computer cafe in Hong Kong, I use Skype via Linux.
> >>>
> >>> There was a new version of Skype in the upgrades that won't work on my
> >>> system.   If she starts her webcam, then her picture breaks up and Skype
> >>> crashes on my system.  Ubuntu 12.04 with Skype 4.  The old one worked
> >>> fine.  Skype then loses all of it's settings.
> >>>
> >>> Remember, she can't install anything on her computer cafe computer. What
> >>> do I do?  PIdgin doesn't work wiith a lot of messenger services.
> >>>
> >> Have you tried g-mail video chat?  I've found that to work pretty well on
> >> most of the Linux systems I've used it on.
> >>
> >>  Mark Wallace
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