Teams on Linux

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22938

I think the idea is to send the fake user-agent only to sites that are known to engage in user-agent blocking, rather than to send the fake user-agent everywhere. Using a wrong user-agent may confuse some sites into doing the wrong thing, so you want to spoof sparingly.

Massimo B. · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 7:48 am Post subject:

My current favorite for the keyboard shortcut is:

Massimo B. · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:17 am Post subject:

Since the stable package dropped version 130, teams failed to share the screen as already described in various threads on https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/ .
Version 130 was dropped completely from Portage if not maintaining a local copy myself. I tested all packages up to microsoft-edge-dev with version 133, and that solved it too. So I keep that -dev package that until it gets stabilized.

Btw. google-chrome-131.0.6778.108 does not have this issue. I use the microsoft-edge only for running a separated teams instance. Is that worth creating a bugreport in order to stabilize either 130 or 133 in Portage just because one single feature of some single "webpage" fails? At least on Linux, one major reason to install microsoft edge beside of Firefox and Chrome might be running MS Teams.
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Zucca · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:47 am Post subject:

Massimo B. · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 12:10 pm Post subject:

Massimo B. · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: Teams on Linux

Zucca · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 1:36 pm Post subject:

Hm. I haven't tried video for a long time.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:27 am Post subject:

I just found that there is again an "Install" button in the address bar when opening the teams website in a tab.
This creates an application shortcut

Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:50 am Post subject:

Reading more about PWA-specific features (using --app-id and pre-installing the PWA) and comparing to my wrapper-approach (using --app):

Desktop and Home integration: This is only the way how to start the "app". The PWA installation creates that .desktop file to be found in start menus etc. I already have that via my wrapper script.
Custom App icon: I already have that.
Task-bar integration: I already have that.
Caching of content for offline usage: Ok, this might be a benefit, thoough not sure if teams uses that as it is made for online usage.
Sync when resuming connection: See above
Faster loading on bad connections: Might be a benefit.
Responsive Design: For usage on different screen sices. Not required.
Native notifications: I already have that.
Background service workers for syncing: ?
URL handlers for mailto:, tel: etc.: Might be useful.
Forced HTTPS: I already use HTTPS.
Sandboxing: When using a separate process and profile, I already have kind of a sandbox
Automatic updates: Updating the PWA only helps for the PWA-approach. Using the website is already up-to-date.

After all because of some uncertain details, I would rather prefer the PWA approach for now and see how it goes... I might be that the PWA does some browser configuration in edge://flags/ that I don't have without the PWA. Could anybody comment?
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Massimo B. · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2024 7:38 am Post subject:

Ok, Teams works perfectly in the following setup as PWA now:

Emerge www-client/microsoft-edge-dev-133.0.2992.0 (masking all other versions to stay on this version until www-client/microsoft-edge gets updated)

Code:

# grep microsoft-edge -r /etc/portage
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/custom:www-client/microsoft-edge-dev
/etc/portage/package.mask/custom:>www-client/microsoft-edge-dev-133.0.2992.0 # Bug mit MS Teams Screenshare in 131, 132
/etc/portage/package.mask/custom:<www-client/microsoft-edge-dev-133.0.2992.0 # Bug mit MS Teams Screenshare in 131, 132
/etc/portage/package.license/custom:www-client/microsoft-edge-dev microsoft-edge
/etc/portage/sets/machine_shared:www-client/microsoft-edge-dev

Create a separate profile, on filesystem called --profile-directory="Profile 1", internally called "Teams", as Edge/Chrome are not able to give custom profile path names like firefox.
Openi https://teams.microsoft.com/ in order to press the Install button in the address bar for installing as PWM. This will create some ~/.local/share/applications/msedge-cifhbcnohmdccbgoicgdjpfamggdegmo-Profile_1.desktop and can be found in application menus.
Emerge x11-misc/kdocker for getting a tray icon for persistent Teams in the background.

Now how to start it: I tried kdocker --name "Microsoft Teams" exo-open ~/.local/share/applications/msedge-cifhbcnohmdccbgoicgdjpfamggdegmo-Profile_1.desktop which doesn't work as kdocker gets the pid of the ex-open wrapper which closes after the application has started. So I created my own wrapper script and copied the Exec= line from the .desktop file:

~/bin/teams :

#!/usr/bin/env bash
kdocker /opt/microsoft/msedge-dev/microsoft-edge-dev "--profile-directory=Profile 1" --app-id=cifhbcnohmdccbgoicgdjpfamggdegmo "--app-url=https://teams.microsoft.com/v2/?clientType=pwa"

I have no specific settings in the edge://flags anymore and nothing specific as command line arguments, because I guess the PWA does all that in a better way.

Some improvement at least on Xfce to get rid of the big PWA decoration bar: I enter Fullscreen mode: Options->More Tools->Fullscreen icon . Then I exit the Fullscreen mode on Xfce via CTRL+F11. That brings the taskbar back but keeps Teams in a frameless window.
Configuring kdocker, my setup is: All options disabled in KDocker->Options. Then setting the icon to some teams icon I copied from the internet. I have the same icon duplicated but with a green dot, set as attention icon. Now save the settings for Microsoft-Edge only.

Happy Teaming!
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Zucca · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:30 am Post subject:

I'm gonna give net-im/teams-for-linux::guru a try.
I'd rather have teams as a separate program (an electron app, I believe *sigh*) than as a firefox tab.

Although teams on Firefox does work, I'm not so sure about the video side.
So I'll try how both fare in this regard...
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Yamakuzure · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:14 am Post subject:

Massimo B. · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:27 am Post subject:

Zucca · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:24 pm Post subject:

Massimo B. · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 1:43 pm Post subject:

Eventhough Firefox is my main browser, I wanted to avoid running Teams just as a tab because:

Firefox was breaking all the audio/video conferencing and screen sharing. Was better by tweaking the user agent but not fully solved. Might be better today, though MS Teams webapp was never developed nor optimized for Firefox.
Having my webbrowser restarting for updates I want to separate the teams app to keep it running.
For ressources and stability I also like to run it as separate browser process AND having a dedicated clean and optimized profile. So there is no requirement to run that process with Firefox, mit might be whatever browser is best for Teams.
And PWA support was dropped in Firefox or was suboptimal by using 3rd party addons...

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Zucca · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:19 am Post subject:

Moved from 'Other Things Open Source' to 'Other Things Gentoo'.
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