Screen sharing in Microsoft Teams

[sushant]

I use Linux Mint Cinnamon 21 and latest chrome browser. I have installed microsoft team for business conferences. Although, I can use team seamlessly but I fail to share my screen with people on the other side. I have learnt that Team cannot be used with Liniux OS but Mac people are able to do.

Please help if there are any work-around.

[wallyUSA]

I have used Zoom for a year to share with m/s and Macs. No issues!

[mikeflan]

I fail to share my screen with people on the other side.

I use MS Teams with Chromium and/or Firefox and desktop sharing works for me.

[karlchen]

I use Linux Mint Cinnamon 21

Please, share the output, displayed by the terminal command inxi -Sxxx, so that we will read which Mint release you really use. - There is no Linux Mint release 21, yet.

[shockedquartz]

I had the same issue with MS Teams in Chrome on Mint. Almost all the functions would work except for desktop sharing.

[mikeflan]

I wish someone else would confirm it works on Chromium, but not with Chrome. I just used it on Chromium 2 days ago and it worked fine.

[Scy]

I am having the same issue with Mint 20.3 in a live boot environment. Screen sharing works fine with Jitsi, but there's no options for screen sharing with teams. I may try an older release or even LMDE to see if that works.

I tried every app solution from the repo, even the official site .Deb file, and I tried Firefox, chromium, chrome from Google, and Microsoft edge, and Microsoft edge beta. Jitsi meet screen sharing works on all of them.

---Edit 1---
Just tried it with Linux Mint 19.3 live boot and I'm having the same issue.

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 System:
  Host: mint Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX B450-I GAMING v: Rev 1.xx 
  serial: <root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3004 date: 12/16/2019 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega Graphics 
  bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1600/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1560 2: 1549 
  3: 1535 4: 1940 5: 1530 6: 1520 7: 1541 8: 1949 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X] 
  driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.27.0 
  5.0.0-32-generic LLVM 10.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: Texas Instruments PCM2904 Audio Codec type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  Device-3: N/A type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.0.0-32-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver: igb 
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 04:d4:c4:49:2a:36 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter driver: rtw_pci 
  IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: dc:f5:05:56:75:3b 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.66 TiB used: 499.17 GiB (10.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB model: Micro PSSD MX size: 119.24 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Book 25EE 
  size: 3.64 TiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 15.70 GiB used: 5.26 GiB (33.5%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 gpu: amdgpu fan: 772 
Info:
  Processes: 303 Uptime: 18m Memory: 31.40 GiB used: 2.97 GiB (9.5%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32 
 

Any help on what I should try next? Is it due to it being a live boot environment? Or my having an APU?

---Edit 2---
I've done some more testing, and on a personal account it appears to allow me to share screen. On my work account it does not. This is for Mint 20.3. My guess is the issue is this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answer ... ation.html

I've tried to use Bottles unsuccessfully to run MS Teams, also Crossover doesn't appear to have good ratings for it. I am stuck either hoping it begins to work sometime, running a Virtual Machine, or hoping both the corporate administrator helps and it works.

I'm also wondering if my live environment or desktop in general is considered "outside the organization" because I'm not logged into MS services on the OS-level like they require on Windows. Whereas logged in on Windows 10 with my organization login is considering the app, the process running it, or the computer itself as "in the organization". (Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/micros ... op-sharing )

[Scy]

I've found a solution, live session 20.3, at least for my organization right now. What I did exactly, in case any steps aren't superfluous:
Chromium > Sign-in with personal account > Meet Now > Share screen > Add personal MS account to Gnome > Sign out in Chromium

Sign in to corporate in Chromium > Go to Calendar tab > 'Meet now' option > Share screen > Invite participant

[mikeflan]

I say just go to the Chat tab, locate a person, and hit the Video Call button in the upper right.

[bridnour]

I'm able to do screen sharing with Teams using my work account.

For reference, I used the official Linux desktop client from Microsoft.

As an aside, screen sharing does not work with Wayland, only X11. Fortunately, this is not an issue with Cinnamon, as it uses X11.