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szzonly
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August 28, 2022
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Screen Sharing Control Bar Keeps Disappearing on KDE Wayland

  • August 28, 2022
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Hi,

 

I am using the 5.11.9 (4300) build from AUR on Arch Linux with Wayland KDE plasma. The screen sharing works OK, and the screen recording works OK too. But the main issue right now is the disappearance of sharing control.

For any window W that coexists with the sharing control bar, closing W will make the sharing control disappear.

Here are some combinations that can reproduce the issue.

1. click on the "more" as shown in the attached picture, and click open and then close the chat/record on the computer/reactions/...
2. close the main zoom window (the one that shows the new meeting/schedule/...)

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    iod
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    May 23, 2023

    Hello, i have the same issue here. Zoom installed through Flatpak on Fedora 38. This is quite relevant with Fedora discussing dropping X11 support entirely and going Wayland-only.


    The issue is not about anything being disabled in the profile or not, when screensharing starts the ondisplay bar with the controls appears and does work but is not stable. After some usage it may disappear on its own or like szzonly describes always disappears after you press the chat button. Or if you press any other button which spawns a context menu. Then when you click to close the context menu the bar disappears.

    When this happens the control window and the main window disappear and there is nothing that can be done but to kill the zoom process or exit from system tray icon.


    Also, in the main zoom window, clicking "Return to meeting" does nothing so it is impossible to bring back the main window during screensharing.

     

    Zoom Version: 5.14.7 (2928)
    Operating System: Fedora Linux 38
    KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
    KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
    Qt Version: 5.15.9
    Kernel Version: 6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64 (64-bit)
    Graphics Platform: Wayland
    Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 3000

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      BensonBear
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      June 28, 2023

      I reported this problem over a year ago (for Gnome under Fedora 36) and still it does not work, rendering Zoom useless in Wayland if one needs to do screen sharing, and most people do, I wager.

       

      Why is no one else talking about this, only a few people?

       

      The screen sharing control bar disappears always within six seconds of the screen starting to be shared.

       

      After that, there is no way to stop sharing.  

       

      The shortcut keys do not work either.   Actually it would be preferable if the bar disappeared by default because it covers up other things one wants to see.   If the shortcut key Alt-S worked to stop sharing at least the thing would be usable.    Did you try your shortcut key?   If it works for you, you at least have something, but probably it does not work for you.

       

      Why can't this be fixed after more than a year?   Zoom under Wayland is useless if one needs to share a screen, and who doesn't?

       

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        dlipovetsky
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        June 18, 2023

        I am also experiencing this same issue.

         

        Linux Client Version is 5.14.10 (3738)
        QSG_RENDER_LOOP is 
        XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP = KDE; GDMSESSION = ; XDG_SESSION_TYPE = wayland

         

         

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          lightshadow
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          June 30, 2023

          Same here, on Fedora 38 with Wayland, it's impossible to use Zoom if you share a screen. Better not to use it or start a session with x11. Frankly I don't understand why zoom on Linux is so poorly maintain. 

          I wish we had an alternative to zoom so I don't have to use at all.  

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            BensonBear
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            June 30, 2023

            Do you find it works with XWayland?   I find if I start Zoom with XWayland, it works and actually catches the entire Wayland screen with no real difficulties (although that seems weird).   This is not really acceptable since it should work in Wayland but at least it is usable for the time being this way if it works for you.

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            lrob
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            July 3, 2023

            Yes, this is a major pain, and probably the only reason I am not using Linux as my main OS at the moment - I rely so much on Zoom and sharing to Zoom screens it's not acceptable this feature simply doesn't work.  I have tried forcing Zoom to launch in XWayland (used env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY /usr/bin/zoom) but it doesn't seem to launch under XWayland.    

             

            Any further ideas or updates from Zoom would be appreciated

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            BensonBear
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            July 29, 2023
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            No.  The people here are complaining that they cannot stop screen sharing, not that the "Screen Sharing function is missing".    They are complaining that once screen sharing has been starting, it cannot be altered in any way because the controls to do so disappear.   Rendering screen sharing close to useless unless you only want to do it once for the entire duration of the rest of the meeting.   Shocking there is no response to this whatsoever.  Zoom should provide at least SOME way to stop screen sharing once started.   Like fix the supposed keybinding at least so it works, even if they cannot figure out how to keep the toolbar visible.  How hard can it be?

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