MS Teams on Linux: screen share and black window

With the latest MS Teams for linux, screen share just results in a black window with no way to exit!

To prevent this from happening:

#cd /usr/share/teams/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/slimcore/bin/
#sudo mv rect-overlay rect-overlay.old

Restart Teams and it should be working fine.

This link helped.

KDEConnect on Android 10

After an upgrade to Android 10, KDEConnect features have been impacted. The following issues are workarounds are documented here:

Clipboard share
Sharing the clipboard from Linux > Android works unhindered.
However, Android does not allow KDEConnect to monitor the clipboard.
Work around: selected text can be shared (you may need to copy to a note take, like in the case of WhatsApp) when highlighted. It will be pasted into a new text document on Linux.

File share
Android > Linux: open KDEConnect settings in Linux > Select paired device > Share and Receive > Configure : set path to store received files

Linux > Android: open KDEConnect in Android > Plugin settings > Share and Receive > Configure:
1. Customise destination directory = ticked
2. Press on "Destination Directory", from top right menu select "Show internal storage"
3. From left menu browse to destination folder and select "Allow Access To ..."

Mitel softphone one-way speech (InAttend, MiCollab) due to antivirus

Picking up audio issues like one-way speech or no speech? And probably you have the following working:

1. Can record a voice snippet fine using an audio recording program. So the device is working and drivers are good.
2. Tried analog line inputs and USB headsets.
3. Wireshark might only show RTP packets in one direction: but there is no firewall or routing involved (same subnet).

So here is the possible culprit: antivirus. Especially Kaspersky (or maybe that is the one I come across the most)

I am just posting this save someone a week or two of troubleshooting in the future...

OpenSUSE LEAP 15.2 and Broadcom WiFi

This is not new issue on this blog. OpenSUSE and Broadcom wireless seems to be a test of one's Linux mastery...and leaves one feeling very much the apprentice!

Here are the links to previous posts which saved my sanity on this latest install.
http://pabxtech.blogspot.com/2013/03/broadcom-wireless-drivers-for-opensuse.html
http://pabxtech.blogspot.com/2014/05/opensuse-131-broadcom-wireless-bcm432227.html

Before going on to the latest solution, it worth noting a frustrating symptom of the driver not working:

• The connection keeps on revolving but makes no progress
• Repeated prompts to re-enter the password, even though it is saved and not encrypted.

So here is the method that worked for me:

1. Add the Packman repo (see https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#Packman) by running the command: zypper ar -cfp 90 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ packman
2. Install the Broadcom driver:  sudo zypper in broadcom-wl
3. Next, run the b43 firmware install: sudo install_bcm43xx_firmware
4.  Reboot your machine

And now you should be able to surf the net without that 10m Ethernet cable. :)