Comment by claudius

The Skype bug looks like a Multiarch problem and there appears to be a workaround in the bug report:

    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 skype

which is trivial to implement either in a custom .desktop file dropped in ~/.local/share/applications or a custom launch script in /usr/local/bin (or whatever comes before /usr/bin in your path).