zoom freezes when stopping screen sharing on linux

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October 23, 2024
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I am running the latest zoom (6.2.5.2440) on the latest Debian (sid; using Wayland). This has been working fine, but recently when I *stop* sharing my screen (either the whole screen or one window), zoom freezes - immediately, when I click "stop share". The connection remains for some time - I can talk to the other person, and they can see my video (but my shared screen is frozen) - but after a few minutes zoom completely freezes. I have to manually kill zoom. I haven't figured out how to get any error messages out of it either.

This basically makes zoom unusable for me. Luckily, I'm not teaching a class right now.

Any suggestions how to debug this? Is this an issue that the developers are aware of?

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Best answer by petrelharp

I've just upgraded to the latest zoom (6.2.10.4983) and this seems to have been fixed (finally). Thanks! I'm glad I won't have to figure out a different platform for the class I'll be teaching soon - I probably would have been forced to use Teams <shudder>.

(Note: I haven't updated anything else since filing this bug, so the fix does seem to be with Zoom.)

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tobico

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After upgrading to Fedora 41, screen sharing on the Flatpak version seems to be working for me now. The RPM version won't launch anymore though.

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BEvenden

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Thanks. I'll have to try it - otherwise I'll be logging in via Xorg whenever I need a meeting on Zoom to record/screenshare

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I've just upgraded to the latest zoom (6.2.10.4983) and this seems to have been fixed (finally). Thanks! I'm glad I won't have to figure out a different platform for the class I'll be teaching soon - I probably would have been forced to use Teams <shudder>.

(Note: I haven't updated anything else since filing this bug, so the fix does seem to be with Zoom.)