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When the pandemic started, Zoom only worked on x.org. They've since added Wayland support but googling for it shows the client is still behind on screen sharing

When the pandemic started, Zoom only worked on x.org. They've since added Wayland support but googling for it shows the client is still behind on screen sharing. That may just be a harder problem to solve in Wayland without zoom itself acting as a compositor? https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362153-Sharing-your-screen-or-desktop-on-Zoom https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362153-Sharing-... Linux sessions utilizing Wayland can only share an entire desktop or whiteboard. In order to share just a specific application, you will need to launch your Linux session with Xorg instead.

TingPing 5y ago
It's not hard, it just is new APIs that require work.
pimeys 5y ago
I use OBS Studio and a virtual camera to drive my zoom meetings on wayland/linux. Works very well and you can do all kinds of cool things with it.
Conan_Kudo 5y ago
The web-based version of Zoom can do screensharing on Wayland just fine in Mozilla Firefox or Chromium. On Chromium based browsers, you need to turn on PipeWire WebRTC through the chrome flags mechanism (chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer). The Zoom application needs to be adapted to work through the Wayland screencast portal interface to get things working properly (including sharing audio!). I've tried to report this to Zoom, but I'm not enough for them to realize it's a problem... * https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/1359887020554924036 https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/135988702055492403... * https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/1404814812903845894 https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/140481481290384589... * https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/1446196846548901896 https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/144619684654890189... If you (or anyone else here reading this) is a Zoom customer, please file support tickets asking for this to be fixed. I gave them all the technical details on how to fix this at the beginning of this year, so they know what they need to do.

TingPing 5y ago

It's not hard, it just is new APIs that require work.

pimeys 5y ago

I use OBS Studio and a virtual camera to drive my zoom meetings on wayland/linux. Works very well and you can do all kinds of cool things with it.

Conan_Kudo 5y ago

The web-based version of Zoom can do screensharing on Wayland just fine in Mozilla Firefox or Chromium. On Chromium based browsers, you need to turn on PipeWire WebRTC through the chrome flags mechanism (chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer). The Zoom application needs to be adapted to work through the Wayland screencast portal interface to get things working properly (including sharing audio!). I've tried to report this to Zoom, but I'm not enough for them to realize it's a problem... * https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/1359887020554924036 https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/135988702055492403... * https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/1404814812903845894 https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/140481481290384589... * https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/1446196846548901896 https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/144619684654890189... If you (or anyone else here reading this) is a Zoom customer, please file support tickets asking for this to be fixed. I gave them all the technical details on how to fix this at the beginning of this year, so they know what they need to do.