| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/zoom.git (read-only, click to copy) |
|---|---|
| Package Base: | zoom |
| Description: | Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service |
| Upstream URL: | https://zoom.us/ |
| Keywords: | call conference meeting video |
| Licenses: | LicenseRef-zoom |
| Replaces: | zoom-libs, zoom-libs-bin |
| Submitter: | edh |
| Maintainer: | edh (gromit) |
| Last Packager: | edh |
| Votes: | 731 |
| Popularity: | 8.32 |
| First Submitted: | 2015-08-15 13:18 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-05-19 01:50 (UTC) |
I have two major problems with Zoom on Wayland: - I can't share screens, when I open the screensharing menu, the options for my screens and windows aren't there as they used to be with xorg. I've followed the instructions pointed from "Wayland screen share" at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zoom_Meetings, but they won't work. - The security menu is black, so I can't, for example, enable others to share screen.
Thanks!
I can't get this to run at all in sway (pure wayland). I see others here saying it works in this setup, but I'm at a loss.
zoom started.
zoom started.
zoom was exited due to a handled signal: 5
ZoomLauncher exit.
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
Any ideas?
Hi I'm running on some trouble with the package which I was unable to solve till now.
I have my windowing system working just fine (I'm using Xmonad + Lightdm + Xorg), I also changed the /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness to basically match the maximum brightness and again works fine, the problem comes when screen sharing on Zoom meetings. In that case my screen brightness decays a lot for me and for the shared content to the point I can't see a lot.
Is this a well known problem? I see below other issues when screen sharing but for me is just the brightness.
Sure, will do with the next release.
+1 to making xorg-xwayland optional. For non-wayland users it's an unnecessary dependency. Thanks!
I can run zoom without xorg-xwayland without problems. Surely I am not running sway nor wayland at all.
Please consider making the dependency on xorg-xwayland opional.
Thanks.
Has anyone figured out how to make zoom forcibly run in x11 if the rest of the session is in wayland or a way to get screen share to work in wayland (and not using OBS camera workaround)?
Using KDE and wayland and I have tried QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb though it seemingly makes no difference for me
EDIT: I got it working from terminal but I cannot get it to work by editing the desktop file. (although I guess that gets overwritten if I get a zoom update). From terminal this works: QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 nohup zoom %U &; disown
EDIT2: apparently it did not work as it seems to work from my side however then people in the meeting reports that the share was just a black screen even though the preview before share on my side was showing correctly.
@edh - That's not the answer I was hoping for (I was really hoping we could get it to launch without xwayland), but at least I know I'm not missing something.
Some ~/.config/zoomus.conf updates:
qt5-webengine installed, and the ebeddedBrowserForSSOLogin line doesn't exist in my config zoomus.conf. SSO login works just fine (issues with Firefox containers aside).pipewire-pulse. system.audio.type defaulted to alsa for me (or I changed it without realizing it). I probably could have installed pipewire-alsa and fixed my issues, but I set system.autio.type=pulse (a lucky guess) and this worked. This should work for anyone using straight PulseAudio as well.If anyone finds documentation on ~/.config/zoomus.conf, please let us know.
@a172
That is actually a great question because I did not restart sway and solely relied on lsof -d DEL | awk "\$8~/\/usr\/lib/ { print \$NF }" to check for loaded but now deleted libraries. Since none were shown I assumed I had no program using xorg-xwayland and I could avoid exiting sway. However, if I do restart sway, zoom does not work :(
I will add xorg-xwayland to the dependencies list.
@edh - dumb question, but did you exit and restart Sway after uninstalling xorg-wayland? If so, what are your relevant env vars? Something like env | grep -ie wayland -e qt. Here's mine (minus a few irrelevant ones):
CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland
ECORE_EVAS_ENGINE=wayland-egl
ELM_ENGINE=wayland_egl
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
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erbrecht commented on 2024-11-19 13:06 (UTC)
@Rhinoceros - I finally got screen sharing to work under KDE with Wayland. Looks like I'm using the same versions as you:
I followed the Screen share section on the Zoom wiki page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zoom_Meetings
The only thing I didn't need to do was set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=gnome. I followed the other steps, and now I can choose my desktop/window to share. Prior to following the wiki I couldn't stop screen sharing without the hanging issue, which I was experiencing prior to 6.2.10.
edh commented on 2016-08-26 11:03 (UTC) (edited on 2017-03-09 10:48 (UTC) by edh)