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Before marking the package out of date, please first check that the new version is not a pre-release. I'm tracking releases, not pre-releases.

Talk to community members here:

https://matrix.to/#/#teams-for-linux_community:gitter.im

@je-vv I've been using wayland daily for everything including for work and I use screen sharing very often almost daily and it works completely fine.

How is teams-for-linux working on wayland now a days. I remember trying like at the beginning of 2023, and it was not working, even with --ozone-platform-hint=auto, --enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer and --enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer. Is it currently working fine? As I don't use big DEs like gnome or kde, but instead I've been trying with wayfire and other wlroots stuff, trying wayland is pretty involved for me, so I appreciate knowing when things work or not. I depend on teams-for-windows with screen sharing, video and everything, so those prior limitations really inhibited me to keep trying wayland... Thanks !

ok, after playing with the launched app. I realized that clicking on a Teams virtual meeting link sends me to my default browser (Moz Firefox) , not to the desktop app.

Additionally the desktop app does not offer the possibility to paste in a meeting link the way Zoom does for instance.

Am I doing something wrong ?

I git-cloned the AUR package URL, cd'ed into the teams-for-linux directory and ranmakepkg -sric`. That installed the extra/yarn dependency (5.08 MiB) and got me an error at build time:

==> Starting build()...
yarn install v1.22.19
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
error conf@10.2.0: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=12". Got "8.9.0"
error Found incompatible module.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Looking up https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install was no help. I also looked at src/teams-for-linux-1.3.11/package.json but could not recognize where the incompatible module was specified.

EDIT: Updating node version with nvm install 14 and removing file ./src/teams-for-linux-1.3.11/yarn.lock seemed to cut it. I could install and launch.

Oh sweat! Since when does this AUR version support background effects? Thanks!

@014 you're right, I forgot to unpin the message when the nodejas version restriction was removed.

I think the comment about LTS version of nodejs doesn't need to be pinned anymore, at least not in my experience. Below is what was installed as make dependencies, and installation succeeded:

==> Installing missing dependencies... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (5) nodejs-20.6.0-1 nodejs-nopt-7.2.0-1 semver-7.5.0-1 node-gyp-9.4.0-1 yarn-1.22.19-1

ms-teams-for-linux is a misleadingly named duplicate of teams-for-linux-bin, so the former is submitted for deletion.

The latter might not always get prompt updates, but people who are willing to help out should not create duplicate, parallel packages, but offer co-maintainership for that earlier-created and properly named one.

Anyone struggling with this package (e.g. screen sharing issues) just use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ms-teams-for-linux-bin instead which is properly maintained at the latest version and based on the same upstream URL

Version 1.2.5 and newer fixes the screen sharing issue, but you have to build it yourself or wait.