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I ended up disabling wayland, see https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-enable-disable-wayland-on-ubuntu-20-04-desktop
Using MS Teams in Ubuntu, cannot share screen after recent upate
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Michael Yakobi
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Hi,
I'm using MS Teams on Ubuntu and usually its realy awesome.
However after the latest updates to both Ubuntu and Teams, when I try to share my screen the bar is empty:
I tried rebooting and it didn't help.
My ubuntu version is 21.04 64bit with GNOME 3.38.5.
Teams is 1.4.00.7556 (64-bit).
Thanks
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Michael Yakobi 56 Reputation points
2021-05-18T11:56:04.03+00:00 Digging in the log I found the following:
Tue May 18 2021 12:33:51 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time) <16493> -- warning -- sharing-indicator loading from 'slimcore/lib/sharing-indicator'
Tue May 18 2021 12:33:51 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time) <16493> -- error -- cannot instantiate SharingIndicator -
Michael Yakobi 56 Reputation points
2021-05-18T12:50:43.63+00:00 I've found https://askubuntu.com/questions/1329667/microsoft-teams-and-wayland-will-screen-sharing-be-fixed-in-21-04 - there's a comment saying its a flag that needs to be turned on when building teams...
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Michael Yakobi 56 Reputation points
2021-05-18T13:15:48.963+00:00 -
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JimmyYang-MSFT 58,646 Reputation points Moderator2021-05-19T02:22:16.093+00:00 Thanks for your feedback and solution about this issue.
In addition, you could check “Allow other users to view your desktop” in Desktop Sharing and try again.
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JimmyYang-MSFT 58,646 Reputation points Moderator
2021-05-24T07:55:19.943+00:00 You could try to mark your reply as a answer. It will also help others who have the same issue to search it more easily. Thanks for your understanding!
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Treasure Mathala 6 Reputation points2021-12-29T13:45:19.087+00:00 This worked for me
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-enable-disable-wayland-on-ubuntu-20-04-desktop
I was trying to share my screen via Zoom and a message popped up saying Zoom only supports Wayland, after enabling it I tested teams screen sharing and teams worked too.
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Brent Groves 11 Reputation points2022-06-09T17:50:35.677+00:00 In Ubuntu 20.04 I noticed a sharing item in setting that I never paid attention to until this week when I started not being able to share my desktop on Microsoft Teams.
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Brent Groves 11 Reputation points
2022-06-09T17:51:37.873+00:00 I just had to set screen sharing to active and I could share my desktop in MS Teams again.
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Tiofan Pamor Wibowo 6 Reputation points2022-09-19T17:35:02.783+00:00 I was resolved by going to
chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturerand changing the value fromDefaulttoEnabled.then
Search for the file.conf in /etc/gdm3/ in my case, Ubuntu 22.04, it's custom.conf
sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.confuncomment the line
#WaylandEnable=falseto beWaylandEnable=falsethen
reboot"uncommenting that line will use the Xorg display manager instead of Wayland "
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Rajesh Shivam 6 Reputation points2022-06-02T14:56:53.557+00:00 If you upgraded your Ubuntu to the latest version, you cannot share screen through MS Teams, Zoom, Anydesk, etc. I found an awesome solution on this blog.