Its been a while since I reinstalled my work laptop; one thing I haven’t reinstalled properly is the Slack app.
The amount of times I use to start it up and go and make a tea because it would make my ubuntu install act like Windows 95. Most of the time I would come back to find my laptop completely frozen.
I tried removing the amount of slack workspaces I had attached to the app but it made little difference. So I decided to hell with the slack app, which seems to be a wrapper for Chrome, with each slack instance being another instance of chrome!
This time I’m using Slack in Firefox and limiting how many I have open at a time. I noticed if you login into the different slacks, the cookie will hold them open for you without using the resources. This can be done from the main page using the Workspace options.
I also noticed the enterprise slack version also has a front page which can be used to reach the other slacks.
Recently I decided to give Flatpak Slack a try. Interestingly I found you can launch the Slack app from the slack pages mentioned above.
It sounds like a lot of hassle but it works and mean my ubuntu system is fully useable.
Hopefully this will be useful for other Linux Slack users?