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Teams desktop client for Ubuntu 20 with strange behaviour

Víctor Herreros 31 Reputation points
2021-09-28T09:30:38.197+00:00

Hello,

I've been using Microsoft Teams desktop client for Ubuntu several months ago and I'm recently experiencing annoying issues.

The issues are:

  1. When browsing past threads on any channel, I can only review the last three or four threads. Previous threads appear blurred. See caption 01.png:

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  1. When diving into any thread with more than 2 replies, at first you can see it correctly states it has 'n' replies, but when trying to unfold the replies it only shows the last two ones. After that, if you collapse the replies, it shows the thread has only 2 replies (though it really has 'n' replies).
  2. When posting a new thread or a new reply, it doesn't instantly shows up on screen. You have to move to another channel, and then come back to the channel where you posted, to see your reply refreshed.

My environment is as follows:

  • Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 64-bit
  • Microsoft Teams desktop client 1.4.00.13653 (the most recent one)

I've tried the following workarounds without success:
a) Remove teams cache (rm -rf ~/.config/Microsoft/Microsoft\ Teams/).
b) Install older Teams versions (1.3.00.30857 and 1.4.00.7556).
c) Install last Teams insiders version (1.4.00.13653).

I've checked that this errors doesn't appear on Teams desktop client for Windows.

Any idea on how to solve it?

TIA.

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  1. Víctor Herreros 31 Reputation points
    2021-10-14T06:35:00.363+00:00

    It seeems the same thing happens to me. The new version (1.4.00.26453) has automagically removed the mentioned problems. Thanks to the developers!

  2. Christian Taillon 1 Reputation point
    2021-10-26T17:01:40.553+00:00

    I have the same exact issue here as described by @Víctor Herreros

    OS: Debian 11 bullseye
    Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64
    Microsoft Teams Version 1.4.00.26453 (64-bit)

    I believe this is also causing me from being able to "mark as read" certain channels. I have a notification across multiple channels that the Channel was mentioned; however, I am unable to review the comments in which it was.

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  3. Víctor Herreros 31 Reputation points
    2021-11-11T20:15:25.673+00:00

    Same problems keep on appearing, after several days testing the new version (1.4.00.26453 (64-bit)). Perhaps would it be possible to try some kind of Ubuntu beta version (I mean, other than the ones obtained from https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams repository, cause both teams and teams-insiders show the same behaviour)?

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  4. Hans 1 Reputation point
    2021-11-22T11:55:54.153+00:00

    Just to say that I am also experiencing this problem.

    I am using Ubuntu 21.04 with Microsoft Teams version 1.4.00.13653 (64-bit).

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  5. mvl_3309 1 Reputation point
    2021-11-23T10:54:03.247+00:00

    Same problem here with Ubuntu 20.04.2 and Teams 1.4.00.26453 (64-bit)

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