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Teams in Docker

This is a small wrapper to run the official Microsoft Teams for Linux client in a docker container on your Linux desktop using x11docker.

Status of this project

Since Microsoft discontinued the official Teams for Linux client in favor of its Progressive Web App this project is now obsolete and only archived here for reference.

See #9 for details.

Features

This wrapper should provide a seemless desktop integration and work (mostly) as good as running Teams natively on the Linux desktop. The following functionality was verified to work:

• accessing audio and video (using pulseaudio)
• screensharing
• clipboard access / copy & paste of (rich-)text and images
• opening meetings/deeplinks in Teams (using xdg-open)
• opening URLs from Teams in the host browser/application (using xdg-open)
• systray integration
• start menu integration
• downloading files (see Limitations though)

Install

1. download x11docker and place it in your PATH.
2. git clone https://github.com/acran/teams-in-docker.git
3. run the ./install.sh script or manually execute its contents as you see fit. It will:
   • build the docker image for Teams
   • copy the start script teams.sh to your ~/bin/
   • install teams.desktop and the icon locally for desktop integration

Updating

You should regularly rebuild the docker image to get the latest version. You can rebuild it with:

docker build --pull -t teams .

Limitations

Since the container has its own filesystem it can not access all files on your disk. But for sharing/downloading files you can use the container's HOME directory which is located at ~/x11docker/teams/ on the host.

Additionally this client will lack many features available in the Windows and macOS clients since Microsoft does not update and support their Linux version of Teams with comparable commitment...