On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM Emmett Culley <lst_manage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 1/28/24 8:01 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM Emmett Culley > > <lst_manage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On 1/27/24 3:39 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > >>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 6:16 PM Emmett Culley > >>> <lst_manage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Even with the latest upgrades to Fedora 39, I am still having issues with Zoom on wayland. I cannot operate day to day without zoom working. > >>>> > >>>> Unless and until that is resolved, eliminating wayland is a serious blocker. > >>> > >>> This has been sort-of resolved in Zoom for well over two years. > >>> > >>> The trick is to copy the Zoom desktop file from > >>> /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications and edit the > >>> new copy to change the Exec line to the following: > >>> > >>> Exec=XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME /usr/bin/zoom %U > >>> > >>> Once Plasma picks up the updated desktop file, it will let you > >>> screenshare on Wayland just fine when you launch it. > >>> > >>> You can also test this by simply doing this from the command line: > >>> > >>> $ XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME zoom & > >>> > >>> (I pushed Zoom to fix it to work with portals years ago, but I > >>> couldn't get them to get rid of the artificial blocker...) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> That seems to fix the issue. Thanks for that. Though I use KDE and so set it =KDE. > >> > > > > The point is that Zoom needs to be lied to about which desktop you are > > using in order to access the desktop-agnostic API. > > > > > > > I wonder how many others simply go back to xorg when their zoom doesn't work. I did for quite a while, until it started to look like that wouldn't be a choice pretty soon. > > There will be a lot of complaints when only wayland is available. Maybe that'll get zoom in gear to fix it. > I can only hope! I know that this change has motivated a lot of applications to start figuring things out when they wouldn't before. So, yeah. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
