Evaggelos Balaskas - System Engineer

Notes from archlinux

xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user’s preferred application

When you are trying to authenticate to a new workspace (with 2fa) using the slack-desktop, it will open your default browser and after the authentication your browser will re-direct you to the slack-desktop again using something like this

slack://6f69f7c8b/magic-login/t3bnakl6qabc-16869c6603bdb64f3a6f69f7c8b2d920fa26149f990e0556b4e5c6f26984db0a

This is mime query !

$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/slack
slack.desktop

$ locate slack.desktop
/usr/share/applications/slack.desktop

$ more /usr/share/applications/slack.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Slack
Comment=Slack Desktop
GenericName=Slack Client for Linux
Exec=/usr/bin/slack --disable-gpu %U
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/slack.png
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;InstantMessaging;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/slack;

I had to change the Exec entry above to point to my slack-desktop binary

How to install slack dekstop to archlinux

Download Slack Desktop

eg. latest version

https://downloads.slack-edge.com/linux_releases/slack-2.6.3-0.1.fc21.x86_64.rpm

Extract under root filesystem

# cd /

# rpmextract.sh slack-2.6.3-0.1.fc21.x86_64.rpm

Done

Actually, that’s it!

Run

Run slack-desktop as a regular user:

$ /usr/lib/slack/slack

Slack Desktop

Proxy

Define your proxy settings on your environment:

declare -x ftp_proxy="proxy.example.org:8080"
declare -x http_proxy="proxy.example.org:8080"
declare -x https_proxy="proxy.example.org:8080"

Slack