Skype freeze when trying to realize a call

Solution 1:

This should make a permanent change for the workaround:

sudo sed -i 's/^Exec=.*/Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype %U/' /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

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If you are using KDE:

Another non-terminal way is to to right-click on start button and select "Edit applications...":

NOTE: If you are using KDE session restoring (System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Session Management -> On login: Restore previous session) then after system restart (or login) Skype will not catch PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC environment variable until you restart it via its .desktop file.

Solution 2:

Got the same issue after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10 sound interrupts badly. But suggesting to reinstall from Software Centre or from Skype download page did not help.

But running this from command line solved the problem:

Exec=/usr/bin/env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 /usr/bin/skype