Mouse pointer not visible when sharing screen

Question

When sharing my screen in Teams from my Linux machine the other participants can not see my mouse pointer.
This is not a big issue but should be possible to solve. Pidgin-sipe plugin for Pidgin have the same issue.

Answer 1

Thank you for downloading Teams for Linux and providing feedback. We are aware of this limitation and we track it for future improvements.

List of known issues can be found here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/known-issues#linux

Cheers!

Answer 2

I found a workaround. I installed the following program:

https://github.com/arp242/find-cursor

and I use the command:

find-cursor --repeat 0 --follow --distance 1 --wait 1000 --line-width 18 --size 18 --color green

(within a script called laser_pointer.sh). It creates a solid green circle which follows my mouse and can be seen when sharing a screen on Teams. Note that the laser pointer will lag a bit behind the actual cursor based on --wait 1000. This lag time forces you to move the cursor slowly, ensuring that viewers will see the motion more clearly on their end.

Answer 3

Teams doesn't capture mouse when we share single screen.
I found that for ppts, in slide-show, right click > pointer option > laser pointer works.
Happy to have something.
Another thing I noticed was instead of sharing a window, if I choose PowerPoint live and select an opened ppt, then regular mouse pointer is also visible (but this option was damm slow in loading slides).
Not a fan of MS Teams :(