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devmrfitz

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Registered: 2021-01-13

Posts: 54

Zoom Screensharing

Yesterday when I rebooted my laptop after updating it (linux-lts kernel) and then joined a zoom (installed using yay) meeting, I got options for sharing individual applications' screens, instead of the entire desktop. I was very happy thinking that it's a new feature. But, after another reboot all those options have disappeared and things have gotten back to the way they were before

Anyone has any idea why this happened and how I can get those options back?

GaKu999

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From: US/Eastern

Registered: 2020-06-21

Posts: 696

Re: Zoom Screensharing

Is there a reason you use lts?
Is it the same with the latest one?
When you move the configuration directory and start it fresh does it do the same?

Do you use wayland of x11?

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devmrfitz

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Registered: 2021-01-13

Posts: 54

Re: Zoom Screensharing

Is there a reason you use lts?
Is it the same with the latest one?
When you move the configuration directory and start it fresh does it do the same?

Do you use wayland of x11?

Wayland.
Once I was in a class and laptop didn't wake from suspend. It was a bug in the latest kernel. From that day, I've used LTS.
Should I delete the config files?

GaKu999

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From: US/Eastern

Registered: 2020-06-21

Posts: 696

Re: Zoom Screensharing

Don’t delete config files, a directory rename will do the trick.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,307

Re: Zoom Screensharing

Maybe you started an xorg session for that one time?

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kaln

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Registered: 2021-04-20

Posts: 1

Re: Zoom Screensharing

Wayland may be architecturally elegant but I don't think it is that great at screen-sharing.

Try X11 and see if that helps.