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

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

Thomas Gfeller 56

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:

What can I do to enable this?

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Thomas

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Answer 1

Rudolf Tomori 401 Microsoft Employee

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

Answer 2

Qi Ke 6

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

Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2020-11-09T02:23:39.083+00:00

@Qi Ke ,
Thanks for you sharing. It's quite helpful.
Tom Heinemeyer 1 Reputation point

2020-11-28T14:58:12.123+00:00

Thanks a lot! You saved my day.

Answer 3

Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Microsoft External Staff

Hi Thomas,
As far as I know, no screen share from chat is a limitation. I recommend you continuously pay attention to the follow-up release.

Thomas Gfeller 56 Reputation points

2020-02-12T09:09:59.673+00:00

Hi SharonZhao. Thanks for your reply.

Strangely enough, it works on my friends PC with KDE Plasma... maybe there is a workaround to enable it?

It's a bit of a shame, that Microsoft (as the official vendor of this solution) is not able to implement, what the opensource community does:
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

I'm using teams-for-linux until MS manages to implement that then...
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2020-02-13T05:58:56.897+00:00

Hi Thomas,
It is really strange. I only have Ubuntu 19.10 with Gnome. So, my result is same to you. Perhaps, you can try the methods mentioned by RudoIfTomori. The screen sharing feature works when I was in a Teams meeting or a call.
Jonathan Neufeld 6 Reputation points

2020-11-16T17:46:43.503+00:00

It looks like Teams uses Skype under the hood, I have never been able to get screen sharing to work in Skype during an active call, should this be working in Teams though? particularly on KDE Plasma version 5.8.9?

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Andy Milkovic 1

Thanks Rudolf. That worked for me. Surprised the button wasn't there, but screen sharing was working after initiating a call.

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Taiger 1

Just tried it during a call and screensharing works on for me on Linux Mint 19.2 if you initiate it after you start the call. Thank goodness!

The confusing part is the button to initiate a call with screensharing is not there on LInux but is on the Windows version.

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