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A third-party Pidgin plugin for Microsoft Lync/OCS - clone of upstream http://repo.or.cz/w/siplcs.git
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"Share my desktop" does not appear unless another chat tab is made #193

Open whisperity opened 5 years ago

whisperity commented 5 years ago

If I open Pidgin and then join a scheduled conference via a "meet.skype" link, the appearing chat window's Share my desktop option (and every other option under More...) is missing. (It works automatically and initially with normal contacts.)

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Once I open a personal chat with a random contact, and then tab back into the meeting's chat, the option appears.

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After clicking on the issue, sharing the desktop works flawlessly, so this seems to be either a GUI bug or something SIPE not telling Pidgin to show this option or something.

The issue persists after the "Chat" window is closed and then reopened: the same workaround must be used, also if Pidgin is restarted. Share my Desktop appears flawlessly for normal personal contacts.

buzzz321 commented 5 years ago

I just ran into the same problem, and could use same workaround.

caomhanach commented 5 years ago

+1 This happens all the time for me. As stated, the workaround does fix it, but it would be great if the root cause was fixed.

whisperity commented 4 years ago

I think given that Microsoft is planning to deprecate Skype for Business in favour of Teams, the issue itself will most likely not be fixed anymore. Teams is, by all means, a better solution, with "native" applications (it's just a Web app like Slack or Discord...) available for Linux distributions, and also through Snap.