My webcam doesn’t work with the skype snap

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@Ads20000

Skype is using classic confinement which is designed as a kind of transitional way for snaps to work without having to do all the interfaces stuff (whilst interfaces are refined so that snaps are able to request the access that they need and I suppose we need a good GUI for all that like Android has, as well). It has full (except root) access to your system just like any other non-confined Linux application would. They’re manually reviewed (so it’s of similar status to the old Skype Deb that was in Canonical Partners repository - which is actually slightly more secure (because of the review, though it’s closed-source so the review can’t be that thorough) than the current Skype which requires installing a Microsoft repository) and can’t be installed on Ubuntu Core (an all-snap distribution). Note that there is a warning in GNOME Software about Skype using classic confinement and if installing from the command line you have to use --classic.

Does this imply that it should easily be possible to get ld_preload= workarounds to work? I have been trying to place my ld_preload such that it might ‘engage’ between the webcam and skype - now I am contemplating if perhaps I should pursue the idea of making the v4xxxxxx.so file an appropriate part of the sequence leading from ‘power on’ to a ‘login prompt’ - would anybody advise me if they view this idea nutty?

Have a nuttier idea I might try?

Edit: The scripts running the forum do not cater the {/quote} tag not being on its own line, it would seem - apparently I broke it by deleting the carriage return between eof text in quote and tag.