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====== Microsoft Teams on Linux ====== | ====== Microsoft Teams on Linux ====== | ||
- | There is an official native Linux client for MS Teams, but it still is missing features and is only in a " | + | <del>There is an official native Linux client for MS Teams</ |
- | Here are some workarounds I found on the way while using teams | + | To get the maximum of features, you should use either chrome or edge. |
- | ===== Desktop remote control is not working ===== | + | simply navigate to https:// |
- | One of the key benefits of Teams vs. so many other platforms is the ability to remotely control | + | |
- | [[https:// | + | compared |
+ | * background images work, but only the microsoft defaults, you can't upload your own | ||
+ | * singe window sharing works, you no longer need to share your whole screen | ||
- | stop Teams app | + | there are also things that don't work anymore: |
+ | * you can't open a pop-out chat window, instead you can open your teams PWA app mulitple times if you want to have a chat in parallel to a meeting for example. | ||
- | sed -i ' | ||
- | start Teams app | + | ====== use custom image (flimsy) ====== |
+ | i stated before, you can't upload your custom image as background.. that's partially true.. while the app does not allow, you can hack your browser to use another image. | ||
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+ | you image needs to be somewhere on a server serving it via HTTPS to your client. It does not have to be reachable by anybody else on the internet, but for you it must be reachable via https. | ||
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+ | when your teams PWA app is open, focus on it and press '' | ||
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+ | now search for " | ||
+ | if you see the entry, change the value to something like '' | ||
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+ | if you now restart your teams PWA app and you start a video call, you will see a black background, because most probably your webserver will not allow cross-site access to the image with an origin from teams.microsoft.com. If you can change your web-servers configuration, | ||
+ | Access-Control-Allow-Origin https:// | ||
+ | once your webserver has this set, your image will work in teams. | ||
+ | If you can't manipulate your server' | ||
+ | Click on the puzzle icon in the upper left corner of your title bar, then choose " | ||
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+ | finally restart teams and you should see your image as background. Don't know for how long that will last though ;) and you will have to repeat this for all your pc' |