Screensharing not working in official Teams client for Linux and Gnome 3.34

Thomas Gfeller 56 Reputation points
2020-02-06T16:01:22.213+00:00

Hello.

I'm using the official Microsoft Teams client for Linux on top of a Pop OS 19.10 / Ubuntu 19.10 which uses Gnome 3.34. Unfortunately I don't get a screensharing button at all:

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What can I do to enable this?

Best

Thomas

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  1. Rudolf Tomori 401 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-02-12T16:16:48.727+00:00

    Hello Thomas, on Linux client you need to start a call firstly. Then the button to share screen will be visible from the call.

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  1. Viktor Horvath 1 Reputation point
    2021-04-28T12:55:24.01+00:00

    Very slow screen sharing happened on some Linux machines, and on others it was fast.
    It was horribly slow on a particular Intel GPU. Memory and CPU were OK, it was like the GPU was too busy to update the screen for my view.
    Using Teams as a web page inside Microsoft Edge works much better. Also there it is possible to share just one single window.

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  2. Jonathan Neufeld 6 Reputation points
    2021-03-21T21:48:56.693+00:00

    Screen sharing works fine for me in Teams on KDE Plasma version 5.8.9 with proprietary nVidia drivers v460

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  3. Stanislav Panchenko 6 Reputation points
    2021-03-16T12:43:46.153+00:00

    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (kernel 5.8.0-44-generic, Wayland is disabled), Microsoft Teams Version 1.4.00.4855,

    I had the same problem until I uninstalled the proprietary Nvidia driver. I am currently using the open-source "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau". No more issues with screen sharing.

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  4. Qi Ke 6 Reputation points
    2020-11-09T02:12:41.947+00:00

    Teams screen sharing not working on Fedora 33 on Wayland, switching to X11 solved the problem.

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