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turning off Skype?

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http://androidforums.com – How do you turn off Skype after launching it? It seems to always be on and I'm guessing its eating my battery. Thanks. (General)

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Submitted by sunime on 02/25/2013

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I have something weird here.

I have something weird here.

Skype has launched Skype Connect 1.0 - previously available in beta as Skype for SIP - a service that enables a business' IP PBX or unified comms systems to make and receive calls via Skype.

Skype using 100% CPU 43 weeks 6 days ago

jwele wrote:Might be in /tmp/.cache or something similar. try pacman -R skype then find / -name="cache" or find / -name="skype"delete all of them related to skypepacman -Sc && pacman -S skypeor at least that is what I would try.Thanks for your reply, I tried your suggestions.

Installing skype on Debian x64 38 weeks 6 days ago

I must say I'm pretty noob in Linux, and I'm trying to install Skype, using this manual. I successfully download the package using comand

wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb-64

but when I try to install the package I get some errors about dependencies.

root@102:~# dpkg -i skype-install.deb (Reading database ...

I installed skype-wrapper because the Skype default icon looks awful with the rest of the unity bar (and I like the integration), and uninstalled the sni-qt package to remove the normal Skype icon.

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Hi,I'm trying to get Skype to follow my GTK theme with no luck.

I am using Xubuntu 12.10. I have installed the latest Skype. But the weird thing is that Skype takes exclusive control of the audio in the system.

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Skype has launched a new version of its iPhone application that, for the first time, allows iPhone users to make and receive calls over their 3G data connection, but it will start charging for Skype-to Skype-calls.