Re: .0 KDE releases have terrible track record, so...

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On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 1:43 PM Adam Batkin <adam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1/29/24 00:35, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> I've been running it this way since the support was added in Zoom
> 5.10. If you have enableWaylandShare=true in your zoom config, then it will
> fail without the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP lie saying your environment is
> not compatible. Sometimes you may also need to force PipeWire as a
> backend.
>
> All of these are kindly documented by the Arch folks:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zoom_Meetings#Wayland
>
> That worked, thank you! I didn't know that I also needed to manually edit zoomus.conf (and in my case, manually tell it to use Pipewire as the screen capture mode).
>
> For future reference, in early 2024, I was able to get screen sharing in Zoom working on a fully-patched Fedora KDE/Plasma system by making the following 3 changes:
>
> * Run Zoom with an extra environment variable: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME * Edit ~/.config/zoomus.conf and set enableWaylandShare=true * Within the application, Settings -> Screen share -> Advanced -> Screen capture mode on Wayland to "Pipewire Mode"
>

Maybe contribute a quick doc so everyone else can easily find it?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/

> I've been running Wayland full-time with KDE/Plasma for a little more
> than 2 years now, and this is one of only three applications that
> gives me trouble. Plus rofi that can't do windows switching (maybe
> someday KDE will support wlr-foreign-toplevel-management, or some
> other mechanism to query active windows and things like that?)
>
> Please file a bug to ask for support in KWin:
> https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kwin&component=wayland-generic
>
> I may, though I'm very surprised no one else has already done so. Meanwhile, in looking into the rofi Wayland fork, I somehow stumbled upon this: https://wayland.app/protocols/kde-plasma-window-management, which looks perfect, except for the caveat "Only one client can bind this interface at a time." (which may make it completely useless).
>

It seems everyone assumes someone else has already done it, so it
never gets filed. :P

> Anyway, thank you for the Zoom tip, that's exactly what I needed,
>

You're welcome! :)




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