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13mehuls
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April 24, 2022
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Unable to screen share in ubuntu 22.04

  • April 24, 2022
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I installed zoom on my freshly installed ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I faced a issue where i was only able to share whiteboard instead of my screen and there is no option other than that. How can i enable screen share? Is there any problem because ubuntu adopted wayland instead of xorg?

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      Jgel
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      October 18, 2023

      Try opening session with XORG. When starting your session, pick your user and then on the bottm right there is a configuration wheel, choose XORG. Then, my problem was solved.

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      marc_ots
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      October 19, 2023

      The options I have on the gear icon of the login screen are: "Ubuntu Wayland", "Ubuntu", "GNOME Classic Wayland" and "GNOME Classic". I have been using "Ubuntu". I have tried "GNOME Classic" as well.

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      conneqt
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      December 15, 2023

      On Ubuntu 23.10.  Installed Zoom 5.16.6 from the snap and ran into this issue.
      Uninstalled the snap and then installed the 5.16.10 .deb from the Zoom download center

      and sharing worked! 

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      annnlee
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      July 13, 2025

      I installed Zoom on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system and noticed that I could only share the whiteboard—there was no option to share my screen or specific windows. After looking into it, I realized the issue is due to Ubuntu 22.04 using Wayland as the default display server. Zoom has limited support for screen sharing under Wayland, which is why those options weren’t available. To fix it, I logged out of my session, clicked my username on the login screen, and then selected "Ubuntu on Xorg" by clicking the gear icon before entering my password. Once I logged in using Xorg instead of Wayland, Zoom allowed me to share my entire screen and application windows as expected.

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