Hi, just like Alexmipego I'm trying to have Skype work on a headless (i.e. no gui) machine in order to drive it by APIs. I actually managed to have it running...
My first attempt was to run it on the machine, which is a vps I connect to through ssh, sending the gui to my local machine. This is useful to configure Skype, to grant access to Skype to your API-invoking-application the first time you run it, and so on.
It can be done installing xauth on the server ("apt-get install xauth" on debian based distributions, google "forward X session" for further informations) and then logging in with "ssh -X myServer.com".
Then, I want to run Skype on the server as a background process, in order to have it running even if I log out from the vps. You can do this installing Xvfb ("apt-get install xvfb"), that is a virtual X environment useful to run applications which need one, just like Skype. I use to launch it on display 2, typing
CODE
Xvfb :2 &
DISPLAY=:2
export DISPLAY
and then I'm able to run Skype in background, logging in from the command line thanks to the "--pipelogin" parameter, typing

#!/bin/sh


killall -e skype

killall -e skype Xvfb

 Xvfb :2 &

 DISPLAY=:2 ; export DISPLAY ; skype &


while [ 1 ] ; do sleep 1h  ;  amixer -c 1 set 'Mic',0 100 ; done

#!/bin/sh


killall -e skype

killall -e skype Xvfb

 Xvfb :2 &

 DISPLAY=:2 ; export DISPLAY ; skype &


while [ 1 ] ; do sleep 1h  ;  amixer -c 1 set 'Mic',0 100 ; done