Wayland on Gentoo not supported in Zoom?

Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2071

Slight clickbaity, but I apparently can't share my desktop in Zoom. I'm on Wayland in Gnome. As soon as I try to share my screen, I get a big fat warning saying that Zoom specifically supports Wayland on Gnome with Ubuntu 17 or above, Fedora 25 or above, Debian 9 or above, CentOS 8 or above, OpenSUSE Leap 15 or above, Oracle Linux 8 or above, RHEL 8 or above, Arch, AnterGos, Manjaro... But not Gentoo. "If your OS is not on the list, please use X11".

Is there a way to force this? I kinda not want to install X11 anymore.

Banana · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:56 am Post subject:

Kinda shot in the dark: If you can find the location of this message maybe it is only a string system version compare and then add gentoo to the list. Dunno if this is possible but maybe it is on a simple bash script which can be altered.
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Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

I guess the other way is to figure out how it determines the distro. The standard is now /etc/os-release - try to run it under strace and see if it accesses that file or if it tries to execute some commands.

f1tz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Aug 2020 Posts: 88

I dont know if that helps a lot, but some folks on the sway window manager subreddit are playing with some workarounds:

https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/j1zrm2/ive_find_to_work_around_for_zoom_share_screen_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/hr155h/zoom_screenshare_on_wayland/

https://gitlab.com/lelgenio/dotfiles/-/blob/master/dotfiles/scripts/sway-screenshare

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3286 Location: Canada

I thought zoom has 'wayland' USE flag, what does it do ?

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Banana · Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:20 pm Post subject:

You will see it as other packages might stumble again like zoom did.
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Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22148

If you need to keep this override in place to placate Zoom, and you need to use packages that need the true value, you may be able to satisfy both by running Zoom in a chroot or a mount namespace. For the latter, you would revert /etc/os-release to its true value, and store a new file /etc/ubuntu-os-release with the lie that Zoom requires. Then, to run Zoom, you unshare the mount (and user) namespaces, mount --bind /etc/ubuntu-os-release /etc/os-release, exec zoom. This is simplified, but should get you started in your research. If you want to pursue this and need help, please ask.

ulm · Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:34 pm Post subject:

Could someone test if the following works?

Install sys-apps/bubblewrap
Save the following snippet as ~/os-release:

Code:

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
ID=debian
Start zoom with the command:

Code:

$ bwrap --dev-bind / / --ro-bind ~/os-release /etc/os-release /usr/bin/zoom

If it does, I could add it to the wrapper script in the net-im/zoom ebuild.

bugalo · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2015 Posts: 38