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		decklin on June 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skype 4.0 for Linux You can communicate with the Skype client over DBus, which allows you to replace a lot (although not all) of the UI with something else. Two examples: http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/ https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/skyy... The protocol is incomplete (the "native" Qt UI isn't built on it), but it is at least documented on their dev site.

scribu on June 14, 2012 [–]

There's also https://launchpad.net/~skype-wrapper/+archive/ppa but it's buggy and still requires you have the main Skype window running.

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