"Please wait. The webinar will begin soon." window keeps moving on its own

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October 14, 2022
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The Zoom program is broken and taken over by a ghost because the "please wait" window keeps moving from where I put it to the middle of the screen and this is SUPER ANNOYING. Can the people who does zoom programming please fix this bug and make the window just stay where it's put?

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andrewnryan

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I agree that this is very disruptive to productivity and would also vote that the pop up not auto relocate itself and honor any manual placement of the window which may have been done by the user.

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galos

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+1 I often times jump on early to webinars or meetings because I'm often distracted with current work and don't log in on time. When the popup window for "Waiting for meeting/webinar to start" is moved to my second screen, every few seconds, it moves to my current screen right in the middle, which prevents me from doing my work. I then have to keep moving it to the second screen. It would be nice if this didn't happen, or at least offer a checkbox option in the settings to not do this. Thank you

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tw5

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Agreed, same issue as galos.. so annoying.

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AlpacaJoe

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Created an account just to post this agreement. Extremely annoying feature that doesn't make any sense. It should either stay minimized if I minimize it, or stay where I put it manually.

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rlboston

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It not only moves on it's own, it moves to wherever my cursor is so it jumps immediately in front of where I'm typing, as it did three times while typing this. Was it designed to be annoying?

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baron

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OMG, yes. This popup behavior is one of the worst behaviors of the Zoom UX. I have been interrupted by it several times as I prepared this response.

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NigelParry

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The popup is hugely annoying as it directly disrupts my preparation for the meeting by taking over my computer repeatedly. Minimizing it makes no difference. Hitting the "X" cancels your participation in the meeting.

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TimBav

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Happy Birthday! This VERY ANNOYING AND SIMPLE TO FIX issue is OVER A YEAR OLD.

Universal workaround: connect to the webinar on your phone until you hear it start.

I created an account just to report this - it's like having someone mash their hand in your face every minute.

It need fixing on MacOs as much as on Windows and Linux.

At least on Linux it's possible to intercept it with the window manager.

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Jeff-on-Zoom

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I have the same issue, I continue to have to move the box every few seconds. It shouldn't be too hard to add or remove the line of code telling the window to move.