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Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by vee-kay »

linuxdaemon wrote: post #50
badthingfactory wrote: post #7

I avoid Teams as much as possible, but when I have to join a Teams meeting the PWA works fine.

I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version. In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in the tray area, and respecting default browser for opening links. I thought I could get by without a tray icon, but it turned out to be too cumbersome to have to explicitly open the window and make sure no one messaged me while I was at lun…

There's an open-source Chrome extension (also works for Chrome OS) to show Notification Badges for MS Teams PWA (Progressive Web Apps):

https://github.com/devoldoak/msteams-notification-badges

For notifications, the Administrator needs to enable the NotificationsAllowedForURLs policy, which automatically allows notifications for Teams on the web:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-progr...

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by mrintegrity »

dominiwe wrote: post #60

I recently had a desire to enable PiP and video controls in teams. I was able to contribute it to this project which was a genuinely good and smooth process. If you start the app with '--videoMenu' new menu options to enable/control this appear.

You can also try this user script which I am using in Firefox https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/552472-allow-pip-in-teams-...

It works great

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by adzm »

beoberha wrote: post #14
neilv wrote: post #3

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

I’m incredibly biased (I work at Microsoft) but I love Teams. It’s a great meeting app and a great chat app. It blows my mind that there are companies that have totally separate apps for each (Zoom/Slack).

It's gotten so much better recently, and I used to be a Teams hater.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by adzm »

perching_aix wrote: post #22
denimnerd42 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never used teams, what's bad about it? my newco is moving from webex to teams for video but keeping slack. I'm a bit worried keeping slack is a short term thing.

I can list off a few issues, but as usual, who and how many will share these experiences is a complete toss-up: - random chunks of chat log can go temporarily missing at random when you scroll up. temporarily as in, they'll load on another device. on the regular one though, who knows when you'll get them back... - if you manage to call someone the same time they do you, all bets are off. got things softlocked more th…

The text copying is pretty much the only remaining issue I have with Teams, and it is so infuriating when you encounter it.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by teo_zero »

drdaeman wrote: post #47
lousken wrote: post #6

If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...

Screen sharing? Hold on, those extra-advanced features could wait. Microsoft should focus first on message delivery (notifications may be delayed for hours), showing media in chats (picture and videos fail to show most of the time) and just opening conversations correctly from notifications (message from a person opens a group chat, sometimes that forks a conversation, leading to loss of history). That’s the very bas…

If we're listing Team's idiosyncrasies, when you're chatting with exactly one person in a group chat after all the others have left, their name becomes "just me". You won't ever see their real name again.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by jacquesm »

The official client is absolutely terrible. But, I've found a much better solution: I tell all my customers Microsoft Teams doesn't work for us and they'll have to pick something else.

Kudos for at least trying to address this, MS should hang their head in shame, this is not the hardest problem to solve these days. If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.

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