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Teams video call minimizes to bottom right, very inconvenient
When I minimize a Teams Video Call it minimizes to the bottom right of the screen, which is very frustrating. This is inconvenient as I'm then not looking at my team, but looking down, so everytime I...
- I guess the thing to realize with a video call minimized window like this is that it is important where it is placed. Locating it at bottom right means you look down and away from who you are talking to, and requires extra work to correct. In addition, many laptops have low mounted camera (under screeen, nostril-cam) so a simple option to select screen position, or better, remembering where it was last place on the screen would be very user friendly. Just because something is simple to do does not mean it is "OK".
JedICDTech Okay I spoke too soon. Get ready, I just solved my problem, hopefully it will work for you too. So Fancy Zones, if you have a zone that has an upper left corner where you'd want the Teams minimized call window to appear, you can do it.
There is one option in the the PowerToys Fancy Zones window that seemed to do it for me. It's called "Allow popup window snapping." When I turned this on, started a meeting, minimized it, and snapped the window to one of my zones, it automatically went back there. Even works for getting a call too!
Not perfect but it works well enough for me right now!
There is one option in the the PowerToys Fancy Zones window that seemed to do it for me. It's called "Allow popup window snapping." When I turned this on, started a meeting, minimized it, and snapped the window to one of my zones, it automatically went back there. Even works for getting a call too!
Not perfect but it works well enough for me right now!
JedICDTech Okay spoke too soon again. The option I suggested is problematic for a few reasons. It moved all child objects to that location, so even like tooltips on hover, splash screens of apps opening.. Not great. BUT.
If you use the option below it "Allow child windows snapping" that actually does the same thing. So I think we're good!
If you use the option below it "Allow child windows snapping" that actually does the same thing. So I think we're good!
- Thank you for pointing that out. I've done so,
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/29f51eb0-65c2-ec11-a81b-000d3a00c008 - I think they will ask you jump to "feedback portal"
...frustrating
as it's already a floating window, why they can't make it better DWB_in_oz That is great you can do that, but Microsoft should make Microsoft tools work like other Microsoft tools!! 🙂
Thanks - I had previously tried Fancy Zones/ Powertoys but been unable to make it work as I wanted as I hadn't seen the custom overlapping zones. I've put a small zone up in the middle and can move the preview thumbnail to it, however it doesn't seem to return there by itself, it still goes back to bottom right. Perhaps I have a different version of Powertoys as I cannot see an option to "allow child snapping".
- JedICDTech Last reply I swear.
Okay so I had Fancy Zones set up to just create different buckets I would snap windows to. But they somewhat recently I think, added a new type of layout where you can actually overlap the zones. So I just created a new zone that is the exact size of the teams minimized meeting view and put it in the top center of my screen. You don't even need to check the "Allow child windows snapping" any longer because technically the mini teams meeting window is its own window. This is the cleanest solution I've found and requires no extra utilities beyond PowerToys which has lots of great stuff you could probably find useful.