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June 18, 2024
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Hi, I just installed Zoom client 6.1 on openSuSE and screen sharing is not showing any option anymore on Basic, but only under Advance tab, and there in this one I can only select Screen Portion, but also cannot confirm the screen sharing. Please fix it or let me know how to downgrade to previous version. Thanks in advance!

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Best answer by freeseek

I agree with @justifru as the following workaround:

sudo apt install cinnamon lightdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

then selecting lightdm and then restarting fixed the problem for me on Ubuntu 24.10

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megian

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It's not funny anymore! 6.2.0 did completely broke screen sharing again. Can't work!

Wayland is going to be the standard on Linux. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-10-plans-wayland-and-xorg-server

You can't just ignore it!

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sonofgohan

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Check Zoom Permissions: Ensure Zoom has the necessary permissions to share your screen. You can check this in your system's privacy or security settings.
Zoom Settings: Open Zoom settings (Preferences > Share Screen) and verify that the correct options are enabled.
Update Graphics Drivers: Sometimes, screen sharing issues arise due to outdated or incompatible graphics drivers. Check for driver updates via your openSuSE package manager.
Try Running as Root: If there's a permissions issue, try running Zoom with elevated privileges (root) to see if it resolves the issue.

MGSR

Community Manager

Hello Community Members!

I'm sorry for the late response and thank you for your patience.

The technical team is working into possibly fixing the bug that causes Zoom to crash when screen sharing is completed in the next version 6.2.5 release. We don't have an estimated time just yet, but we'll keep you informed.

For now, we greatly appreciate your understanding.

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JoergP

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Today I got an update, to version 6.2.2 (2028) ... the error persists!

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sonofgohan1

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@rburch05 it didn't work bro

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JoergP

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Another update to 6.2.3 (2056) .... another disappointment! Still doesn't work, at least for me.

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JML9

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6.2.5 is supposedly the version that fixes this issue per @MGSR . 🤞

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vHanda

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I've tried 6.2.5, it also has the same issue. I'm just so frustrated by this - We're paying for zoom, and I've spent over 1-2 hours trying every old version of zoom, and different combinations of libpipewire and whatnot to get this to work.

It screams unprofessional, when you as an engineer have technical issues with Zoom.

I'm going to try and convince my current company to move to Google Meet.

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rideaway

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Also have this issue with zoom 6.2.3 and pipewire 1.2. Is this ever going to be fixed?

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jmrodri

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I was able to get the "crashing when stop sharing" issue fixed when I switched to using the flatpak on Arch Linux. The AUR package would always crash, but the flatpak has been working just fine.

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jmrodri

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Well, the flatpak finally got updated with broken stuff 😞 when I stop sharing it crashes again. The flatpak is 6.2.3.2056.

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justifru

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WORKAROUND :

I had the problem that zoom crashed after stopping the screen share using Debian trixie and gnome.

After installing cinnamon (which comes with pulseaudio instead of pipewire) and switching the login manager to lightdm instead of gnome it finally worked!!

apt install cinnamon
apt-get install lightdm

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justifru

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It is me again. I accidentally removed gnome (so I only had cinnamon/lightdm), had some keyboard/language issues in cinnamon and then tried to switch back to gnome (install gnome, have cinnamon in parallel just as it was before I accidentally removed gnome).

I m back at the beginning now. Can not unshare zoom.

I guess the workaround worked until something with the desktop environment switching messed up.

It is so frustrating and seems hopeless because I don t know which linux distribution to install if this is a deeper problem with a pipewire incompatibility...

Please fix this, zoom developers!

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eduardom

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This extremely frustrating experience i'm looking different kind of issues in my case it's i cannot share only one screen when i share it share all of them, it's working find in the web version actually,

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eduardom

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I have KDE NEON with pipewire 1.0.5 it's not crashing when i share screen but i don't have the option to select which screen i want to share so both of them are being shared at once, it`s only working in zoom web, but i guess the screen sharing implementation is done by the browser itself and not by zoom, this is really annoying, not sure if this specific issue if's happening also on arch?, i understand that due to the pipewire version it's also crashing when stop sharing, but even if you downgrade somebody else are experiencing this same issue too?