Skype on Linux

Benke

Participates in a 2 day web conference. Installed Skype flatpak days in advance, but couldn't try it out.
In an email I had received a conference-id and a direct link.
I had imagined that it would be easy to fill in the number somewhere and just connect to the meeting, but no.
Is Linux Skype only for making phone calls , as Skype once was intended to?
All ready late I had to leave my home office and run to the windows computer in another room to be able to participate. House was empty today but won't be that tomorrow.
What do I do wrong, or is it not even possible to do better?

stocc

Benke I don't have Skype, or a need for it, but I saw the following on a Microsoft website: " In addition, you can paste the Meet Now link into the search field in Skype to quickly join your meeting." I realise that your meeting is probably not a Meet Now one, but did you try pasting the link into the search field?

Sebastian

This is probably Skype for Business which doesn't seem to be available for Linux.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/joining-a-conference-on-skype-for-linux/6be11a8c-880e-4e39-9cec-0530c15f03be

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1034110/how-to-join-skype-for-business-meeting-on-ubuntu-without-skype-for-business-acc

These links are a bit outdated though, and I don't use Skype myself.

pomon

Try downloading Teams, for example: AppImage, log in, and choose the Skype account. Then, go to Meeting -> Join using the meeting ID.

Benke

Perhaps no hope then, but I can move the windows unit into my office

Was part of another meeting i February where they used Zoom instead. Besides from working flawlessky it was also a nicer product where you could raise hands and silently chat to everybody or just the organizer.

Sebastian

You should definetely try pomon's suggestion. Sounds promising.

brent

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Trojdor

I'm just assuming you already realize Microsoft is shutting Skype down in 3 weeks?
Definitely try the Teams route, as mentioned by pomon.

"Microsoft is shutting down Skype on May 5, 2025, and is encouraging users to transition to Microsoft Teams instead"

SethStorm666

Trojdor I was going to say that 😃

Skype is a dead horse.

Benke

Ok, istalled teams but it looks exactly as the browser version, and while there is a conference id there's no password included in the mail. The method to log into the skype meeting is with a link, why the conference id is there is not obvious to me.

pomon

So what code/link for the meeting did you get?

https://meet.skype.com/room-name 
https://join.skype.com/code

— those are for Skype. You need to open it in Skype. Click the camera icon -> Meet Now -> Join a meeting, and in the newly opened window, enter the link or code.
If it’s a link like https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/... then it’s a Teams meeting. If it’s not a problem, ask the person organizing the meeting to create it in Teams instead, since Skype won’t last much longer anyway, as others have already mentioned above.