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September 24, 2024
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Screen sharing black screen on newest Linux deb version on Ubuntu 22.04 XOrg

  • September 24, 2024
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Hi,
I installed the newest version of the Linux client yesterday and recognized that when sharing the screen I only see a black screen.

Version: 6.2.0 (1855)

I am definitely on XOrg and NOT on wayland.
Downgrading to version 6.1.10 fixed it.

I'm on lightdm and use Qtile as TWM.

I can't check whether this happens on GNOME or Plasma, too.

Many thanks in advance!

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Newcomer
April 28, 2025

1. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo Laptop with NVIDIA 550 drivers under X11. Wayland doesn't work for many applications.

2. I was running Zoom 6.4.5.1259 with problems on both Wayland and X11

3. I downgraded as mentioned below to 6.1.6.1013 as documented below.

4. Zoom works as expected,

 

On Wayland the problem was a combination of the new versions of Zoom and Wayland interaction, not only with Zoom but with the programs Zoom is trying to interface with. When I switched to X11 the new version of Zoom still had difficulty switching shared screens.

 

I was prompted to investigate Wayland to see what I was faced with. It turns out that Wayland has added security features that prevent one program from accessing the screen of another program. Zoom is not the only program that doesn't play well with Wayland. As an engineer a large number of programs I use regularly either have problems with Wayland or just won't work. It seems Wayland has targeted a lot of developer and scientific programs to make them unusable. At any rate, I found that Zoom had the most trouble with those programs that also had problems with Wayland. So it isn't just Zoom, but also the program Zoom is sharing. The fact that older versions of Zoom work, means we are living on shared time before these older versions will become obsolete and we will have to upgrade to a potentially non-working version. Given the fact that if the program screen to be shared may be a problem for Wayland, I don't see how Zoom can even solve this problem and will have to carry X11 support as well as Wayland for a long time. Otherwise people who have to get work done and can't do it in Wayland will cease to be Zoom customers.