Zoom loses screenshare controls after Presentation

[Member stevesr0]

Hi,

I installed ZOOM .Deb from the Zoom download center, following the instructions of anticapitalista in August.

It seemed to work fine, but today when I was working with a presentation and using the screen share, the screen share controls are are gone if I start and then exit a slideshow.

Looked around on the internet, didn’t see anything about this as a bug.

I just upgraded to the current version of ZOOM, but that didn’t fix it.

Keyboard shortcuts to leave screenshare (Alt + S) or to show controls (Ctl + \) don’t work.

Appreciate any ideas.

I need to use this in a few days to teach a class.

Thanks.

stevesr0

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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No idea, sorry. But having to rely on proprietary software is a nightmare (even on linux).
I have just spent the last 10 weeks teaching on-line via MS Teams (on antiX-19)
99.9% of the time, no issues, then suddenly it started to crash. Then all was well again.
I thought it was a linux issue only to discover that my colleagues using Apple and/or Windows suffered more crashes!

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[Member stevesr0]

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hi anticapitalista,

I have a kind of fix, although not a true solution.

First I checked the ZOOM help site for anything that might help. Since I saw a black bar appear when the screenshare went missing, I looked at “black screen” errors and ZOOM said to install xcompmgr and then use a specific configuration. When I did that, I could see the meeting controls were still there – but unfortunately they were still unresponsive.

Then I checked on the Impress site and found a suggestion to run the presentation in window mode.

When I did that, all works OK.

They made a comment that ZOOM has a problem with full screen presentation software.

Thanks for response.

stevesr0

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