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My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in ot

by Jedd 5y ago

My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps -- and b) it does not respect standard system titlebar / borders, which puts it as the only app in my KDE environment that works in a non-standard manner. A/V issues, navigation, inability to find an existing conversation / conference (happening now on another computer) on a GNU/Linux machine, etc are almost secondary.

lokedhs 5y ago
> it does not respect standard system titlebar / borders, which puts it as the only app in my KDE environment that works in a non-standard manner. This also makes it impossible to resize the window. Well, sometimes. There are times when it works, and I have no idea what makes it work. Thankfully, I usually use Qubes OS which doesn't let programs do these user-hostile things.
- MayeulC 5y ago
  > This also makes it impossible to resize the window. As a workaround, I'm pretty sure that KDE supports Alt (or meta) + right click for resizing.
  - Jedd 5y ago
    KDE lets you resize compliant windows in this way, but Microsoft Teams for GNU/Linux is not compliant -- and consequently this does not work.
marcosdumay 5y ago
You can outright prohibit applications from starting on the foreground on KDE. I wouldn't even try running Teams on Linux, as I'm sure it's an endless source of frustration (much more intense than on Windows or on the browser). But the one nice thing of Linux is that you can force apps to behave.
foepys 5y ago
> My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps I needed to change my work password twice already because I accidentally sent it to somebody when Teams suddenly popped up and took focus away from my VPN client and I hit enter.

by Jedd 5y ago

lokedhs 5y ago

> it does not respect standard system titlebar / borders, which puts it as the only app in my KDE environment that works in a non-standard manner. This also makes it impossible to resize the window. Well, sometimes. There are times when it works, and I have no idea what makes it work. Thankfully, I usually use Qubes OS which doesn't let programs do these user-hostile things.

MayeulC 5y ago
> This also makes it impossible to resize the window. As a workaround, I'm pretty sure that KDE supports Alt (or meta) + right click for resizing.
- Jedd 5y ago
  KDE lets you resize compliant windows in this way, but Microsoft Teams for GNU/Linux is not compliant -- and consequently this does not work.

marcosdumay 5y ago

You can outright prohibit applications from starting on the foreground on KDE. I wouldn't even try running Teams on Linux, as I'm sure it's an endless source of frustration (much more intense than on Windows or on the browser). But the one nice thing of Linux is that you can force apps to behave.

foepys 5y ago

> My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps I needed to change my work password twice already because I accidentally sent it to somebody when Teams suddenly popped up and took focus away from my VPN client and I hit enter.