Bug: Teams: no notification sound on browser version of teams integrated into Ubuntu 22.04 as an Edge Browser PWA app

I'm having the same problem on both Edge and Chrome on Linux and on Teams for Linux unofficial app. If I had to guess the fact that Teams blocks any sounds if you have an active window is the culprit. It's the only thing that makes sense to cause 3 different programs to all fail to make any sound when I'm in 4th program, Discord, which has zero problems sending me notices of messages. Same with Google Chat working just as expected. They're all configured to send me sounds from direct messages regardless of what window is active. Teams is the only one that doesn't let me override that silly "feature" and so I must conclude it's to blame.

Same bug here. Have tried everything I can think of and followed all trouble shooting instructions I can find.

Ubuntu: 23.04

Chrome: 116.0.5845.96

I have found a solution its a bit techy and needs tidying up because its a right butchering of someone elses code but it does work.

You need to download the source code for dbus-1.12 and make changes to the print_iter function in the dbus-messsage.c file so that if if finds the text "teams.microsoft.com" it exits with a return code of 1.

switch (type)

    {

    case DBUS\_TYPE\_STRING:

      {

        char \*val;

        dbus\_message\_iter\_get\_basic (iter, &val);

        if (val!=NULL && strstr(val,"teams.microsoft.com")!=NULL)

          exit(1);  

then a bash file which runs in a loop and plays a sound when a message from teams comes in

#!/bin/bash

while true; do

{location of new compiled version}\dbus-monitor

if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then

    echo "Program terminated with exit status 1. Playing sound..."

    aplay /usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/pisk-up.wav

fi

sleep 1

done

obviously this is not the place to post the full set of instructions but it does work. i can get a sound to play when a teams message comes in.

Hi Roberta,

Yes, I confirmed that my Edge browser settings have "Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended)" on, and "Block third-party cookies" off. Since I don't have third-party cookies blocked, I don't need to add any exceptions for Microsoft. So, yes, cookies are allowed per the instructions. This was the setting I already had, so this has not yet solved the problem either.

Hi Roberta, thanks for your reply. I first came across that post before posting my question. That thread is locked, has no replies to it, and has no instructions to fix anything. What exactly do you mean?

Also note that my bug appears to be the same issue as that bug. They are also on Linux, except using the Manjaro distribution with the KDE front-end. I'm on Ubuntu with the Gnome front-end. They and I appear to be describing the same bug though, and I see no replies nor solutions there.