I had been lead to believe that the public API had been
improved, so I
had made some initial exploration of the skype 2.0
application. In that
search I found some comments about command line arguments
for skype. The
main problem I am hitting for a fully accessible way to use
skype in
Linux is that some things still need to be done in the
actual skype
application.
The first problem I had (which I think there is no way round
for someone
relying entirely on Orca) is that the first time you start
skype there
is a license agreement window, it seems you must select the
agree button
in this (ie. no other way to agree). As this was a bit of a
stopper for
me, this was as far as I could actually go myself. Doing
some searching
on the internet revealed a linux journal article on making a
skype
server to allow you to use your standard phone equipment for
skype.
Quickly browsing through this it seemed like there were
possibly some
other setup stuff which needed to be done in the skype
application.
For those who really must have skype in Linux, this idea of
a skype
server might be an idea if you can get the sighted
assistance on setting
it up. I unfortunately don't have the exact link for you but
I am sure
that google will be a good friend here.
From
Michael Whapples
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:56 +0100, Christian wrote:
> Hi all,
> Skype has already been discussed here, but I din't know
if this has been covered.
> There seem to be command line options for Skype. Just
for fun I installed the latest 2.0 release and from what I
understand it should be possible to log in with a command
line option.
> I tried it, but nothing seem to happen.
> I also tried making a call to echo123 but with no
resul. I used
> Skype callto:echo123 From a gnome,terminal.
> Has anyone else heared abot this?
> All the best,
> Christian
>
>
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