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Sunday, 3 October 2010

Skype on Linux - Hiding off-line contacts

Having been a great fan of Skype for many many years, it's always annoyed me that, on the Linux platform, I couldn't see an obvious way to hide contacts that are off-line - on Mac and Windows, this is an easy option, yet on the Linux platform it's always been something I couldn't achieve.

Having spent a half hour or so online this morning, I finally found this undocumented "hack" and it's embarrassingly simple - press the keys [Ctrl] and [U] to  hide those contacts who are off-line; pressing [Ctrl] + [U] again "unhides" the contacts again.

So, in short, use [Ctrl] + [U] to hide and "unhide" the contact list.

Easy when you know how :-)
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13 comments:

  1. Quacos16 December 2010 at 12:50

    Wow, thanks, that was so annoying, sometimes some contacts appears as offline and go online only when you chat to them (like the Ping.FM bot), worked like a charm.

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  2. BlaXpirit7 March 2011 at 20:28

    Thanks; useful tip.

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  3. Jan Groth18 October 2011 at 09:38

    thanks a lot...

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  4. Prasad1 August 2012 at 10:25

    Thanks.. It was useful.

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  5. njpugh9020 January 2013 at 14:58

    Thank you!!!! This has annoyed me so much! Would have expected it on the context menu or something!

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  6. Koen8 March 2013 at 08:08

    That was easy, thanks!

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  7. Unknown10 April 2013 at 20:54

    thank you! lost about forty minutes trying to find that option in Skype settings((

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  8. Dave Hay11 April 2013 at 06:11

    Glad to see that this old post is still of use to folks :-)

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  9. Umar7 June 2013 at 14:18

    Thanks

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  10. Dave Hay8 June 2013 at 06:58

    @Umar - no worries, glad to help

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  11. Anonymous5 September 2013 at 11:38

    Thank you so much!!! Was so annoying for me to see my long contacts list offline.

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  12. Fernando 28 October 2013 at 12:13

    Thanks a lot! This is really useful!

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  13. Nikolay Korotkiy2 November 2013 at 13:45

    Thanks a lot!

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