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So Microsoft Teams is discontinuing support of the native Linux app.

Currently we are using the PWA in Chrome browser. This works pretty well, but I don't get a popup notification when someone starts a meeting.

Notifications seem to be switched all on in teams.

Is there way to get such notifications?

Or do we have to risk Ubuntu users to be known as always late for or missing meetings? ;-))

Alex
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From what I can tell Rinzwind is right that there is no Ubuntu specific way to do this. You need to either use the Teams Notification Alert extension, or else rely on another method of receiving notifications, like email.

Julian
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Update 2025: Aaaand for me it does not work anymore in the browser app...

Update 2024-05: The official "New Teams" browser app now shows a popup notification when someone starts a meeting.

To show a popup notification when a person joins a meeting, I use Teams for Linux. It is an

Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron.

To install: use the script, snap or flatpack on their GitHub (I used deb-get for simplicity).

sudo wget -qO /etc/apt/keyrings/teams-for-linux.asc https://repo.teamsforlinux.de/teams-for-linux.asc
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/teams-for-linux.asc arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://repo.teamsforlinux.de/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams-for-linux-packages.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install teams-for-linux

Small note: The behavior is different than Windows. On Windows you also get a notification at the time the meeting is scheduled.

Mo_
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Along with other answer, when you have no Outlook on Linux, you may want to use Thunderbird for email and its Calendar for notifications.

pbies
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