Why Skype crashes on 11.10 x64 architecture? And why the weird font ? Why its not using the system font, like it's set in Options ? The same problem is in 12.04, but that's forgivable for pre-realese verson...
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Have you tried the steps described here? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SkypeTroubleshooting#Display_configuration
At one point I couldn't even read the fonts on the menu's, and following this helped.
I believe Skype is still in Beta 2, so technically this application is also in pre-release. Unfortunately it's been in that state for quite some time, however I've been using it for months and rarely have a problem with it.
skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/
Can you be a little more specific and elaborate a bit on the crashes? Do you see any messages of value in /var/log/syslog when the crashes occur?
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Just to add, after Microsoft bought Skype I have even less faith that it will ever come out of Beta. Mar 15, 2012 at 1:56