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I had to stop using Wayland: cannot share desktop with zoom or meet (it crashes)

zdragnar 3y ago
Meet shares my screen just fine. Zoom claims that it should, but it refuses to recognize my setup as "supported", probably because I'm using sway and not gnome. I got it working for awhile, but after an update it stopped. We mostly switched to meet, and I stopped caring. If I need to share my desktop in zoom, I just drop from the meeting and rejoin from chrome instead of the app.
chrismorgan 3y ago
Zoom used to work in Wayland quite some time ago, then it started crashing on meeting join under Wayland, and it was still like that last time I tried it under 5.11.10. Then they finally implemented screen sharing properly in 5.10 or something, then in 5.12 they actively broke it again (popping up a message box saying it won’t work except under GNOME or something like that), so I downgraded to 5.11.10 and it’s fine again. I tried 5.13.0 and it was still broken. I haven’t tried upgrading since; maybe they’ve unbroken it again, one can always hope. Anyway: Zoom 5.11.10 is working fine for me in all regards so long as I run it under XWayland. My ~/bin/zoom: #!/bin/sh export WAYLAND_DISPLAY= exec /usr/bin/zoom "$@" I believe a shell alias would also work if that’s how you run things. Minor suboptimalities in its window management and UI scaling compared to native Wayland under Sway, but nothing big, except for it only handling input and screen updates around once a second if you have any window (except the main one for some reason—but settings, a meeting, chat, participants, they’re all affected) open but not visible (e.g. as an inactive tab—tiled or floating is fine). Oh, and that I get REPLACEMENT CHARACTER from typing astral plane characters with my Compose key, which strongly suggests stupid UTF-16 stuff and I can’t remember if that happens under native Wayland anyway. Or the hidden window problem.

Meet shares my screen just fine. Zoom claims that it should, but it refuses to recognize my setup as "supported", probably because I'm using sway and not gnome. I got it working for awhile, but after an update it stopped. We mostly switched to meet, and I stopped caring. If I need to share my desktop in zoom, I just drop from the meeting and rejoin from chrome instead of the app.

chrismorgan 3y ago

Zoom used to work in Wayland quite some time ago, then it started crashing on meeting join under Wayland, and it was still like that last time I tried it under 5.11.10. Then they finally implemented screen sharing properly in 5.10 or something, then in 5.12 they actively broke it again (popping up a message box saying it won’t work except under GNOME or something like that), so I downgraded to 5.11.10 and it’s fine again. I tried 5.13.0 and it was still broken. I haven’t tried upgrading since; maybe they’ve unbroken it again, one can always hope. Anyway: Zoom 5.11.10 is working fine for me in all regards so long as I run it under XWayland. My ~/bin/zoom: #!/bin/sh export WAYLAND_DISPLAY= exec /usr/bin/zoom "$@" I believe a shell alias would also work if that’s how you run things. Minor suboptimalities in its window management and UI scaling compared to native Wayland under Sway, but nothing big, except for it only handling input and screen updates around once a second if you have any window (except the main one for some reason—but settings, a meeting, chat, participants, they’re all affected) open but not visible (e.g. as an inactive tab—tiled or floating is fine). Oh, and that I get REPLACEMENT CHARACTER from typing astral plane characters with my Compose key, which strongly suggests stupid UTF-16 stuff and I can’t remember if that happens under native Wayland anyway. Or the hidden window problem.