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Brent Vanwildemeersch
Brent Vanwildemeersch

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Fix Microsoft Teams screen sharing on Ubuntu 22.04

Problem

When you install Microsoft Teams on Linux Ubunut 22.04, screen/desktop sharing doesn't work (v1.5.00.10453)
When you open the sharing tray on the native or the web-client of MS teams, its empty as shown below.

Screenshot empty sharing tray MS Teams

Cause

The origin of this problem is that Linux Ubuntu 22.04 uses Wayland as main communication protocol between a display server and its clients. And the Elektron version that Teams is currently using doesn't support Wayland as it should.

Solution

Source

Solving the screen sharing issue is easily resolved by just disabling Wayland in your display manager

Assuming GDM3 is your default display manager, editing the config can disable Wayland



 sudoedit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf


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Image config Wayland enabled
Uncomment #WaylandEnable=false and save your changes

Restart your device or restart GDM3


 bash
sudo systemctl restart gdm3


Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

After restart, this should resolve the issues with MS Teams screen sharing

Top comments (10)

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anudeep

Thanks worked perfectly

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Rodrigo Dias

This was awesome! Thank you!

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Darren Hall

Worked perfectly, thanks!

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N3o

Thanks a lot, you saved my life

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HamzaDLM

Fixed sharing problem but disabled my second monitor

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Bernardo Nunes

We can't have it all, can we?
Worked for me but Spotify doesn't work anymore..

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Marcello Pato

The problem here, for me at least, is that the color seems to be a little different, like gray is some kind of tiny red gray...

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Deepu Kumar

Thanks, It worked.

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bigkrp

But if I want use wayland, are there any options?

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Brent Vanwildemeersch

Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to use Wayland successfully share screens with Microsoft Teams