Teams PWA notifications on Linux

Question

Hello
After installing Teams PWA on Linux Redhat we are not able to get notifications of any type. We have gone through the various permissions settings and they all appear to be on. Is there an issue with this feature ? Does anyone have this working ?

Answer 1

To be honest I was surprised that there wasn't more comments complaining about notifications in Linux. But now I understand it, you delete all inconvenient comments. Good job Microsoft, good job.

Answer 2

Hi,

I use ubuntu 22.04, and I receive notifications, but without sound. I checked the permissions, and all is permited, as you can see on the screenshot.

Answer 3

This isn't just about seeing the notifications pop up and hearing a sound when they do. This is about the total inability to easily see if someone has messaged you while you were away from the desk.

With no tray icon, there's no way to see this without opening the app. I, and a lot of others, do not have the screen real-estate on our systems (particularly when using laptops) to leave this app up and in the foreground all day. Opening and closing it all the time is cumbersome and slow.

The lack of a tray icon also means we can't quickly change our status. This icon has been a primary feature of all messaging apps going back to NetMeeting, ICQ, and everything else in the before-times. The Teams PWA is the only messaging client I can think of without this feature. Being a PWA is no excuse.

And the super annoying thing is: This all worked fine in the older electron-wrapped client. If it had not, I'm sure a lot of places would not have chosen Teams as their cross-platform messaging solution. But now, Linux desktops in companies have been totally given the shaft. I guess someone at MS thinks the PWA allows them to keep the "Linux client" bullet-point on their comparison graphs without having to actually have a Linux client.

I find myself running the years-old client most days, because the PWA is unfit for business use. That this has gone yet another year with no roadmap or progress shows deliberate intent to provide a poor experience to corporations using Linux desktops. I can't see how it's not deliberate, because MS's own Visual Studio Code team does a great job making a fully functional app that works on Linux exactly as it does on Windows.

Other messaging clients seem to be able to support Linux well... and I'm finding myself in more and more Zoom meetings.Anyone at MS who disagrees should sit down with a Linux desktop and try to use the Teams PWA for just a week while doing actual work. If you're not clamoring for a fix to the missing Teams tray icon the end of the week, you didn't actually use it.

Answer 4

It is rhel 8.4
Dont get notifications of any type
I haven't used the web version as Ive been using the linux client
but I will give that a shot to check behavior
Thanks

Answer 5

Hi @Binello, Severino

Thanks for the information.

I tested in my lab and chat notification seems to work for me.
Please see the following screenshot:

Have you allowed teams.microsoft.com for notification in Edge/Chrome?

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