Thursday, July 28, 2022

Restore missing "Share Entire Screen" functionality in Zoom under Gnome

Hey, I know its been a long time since I rapped at ya.

(That was a reference to Jim Anchower from The Onion)

Anyway, Zoom does not work right on Ubuntu (I'm back on Ubuntu) in that sharing the screen is not an option. This is apparently a bug with Wayland and you could do a horrible fix of moving off of Wayland and back to Xorg, but screw that.

You can make it work, though this should probably be a temporary fix that you turn on and off when you are done sharing.

From: https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Linux-screen-sharing-broken-in-new-client/m-p/30975/highlight/true#M15362

The short version of the workaround is: do alt-F2, type "lg" and hit return; then enter

  global.context.unsafe_mode = true

and hit return; then escape to go back to things. You might want to reverse this (change "true" to "false") afterwards.