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Teams - Fix Black Screen When Sharing Screen

I recently found out that disabling compositing in Xubuntu massively improves performance. Unfortunately it also causes Microsoft Teams to turn a display I share completely black so I can't see anything on it.

Steps

One just has to move one file to stop it being used, and that "fixes" the issue.

sudo mv -i \
  /usr/share/teams/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/slimcore/bin/rect-overlay \
  /usr/share/teams/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/slimcore/bin/rect-overlay.bak

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Last updated: 21st August 2020
First published: 18th August 2020

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