ZOOM whiteboard on Kubuntu 20.04

ZOOM whiteboard on Kubuntu 20.04

Shay Gover govershay at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 20:11:31 IDT 2020


Use Openboard instead

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:02 PM Efraim Flashner <efraim at flashner.co.il>
wrote:

> I don't have any experience with kubuntu or using zoom on the desktop,
> but I do know that there's also a flatpak of zoom. Perhaps that one will
> work better.
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 07:55:59PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > I recently upgraded from Kubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and have a problem with
> > the whiteboard in ZOOM.
> >
> > Instead of a "whiteboard" I have a "blackboard". I can write on the
> > board (in white lines), but as soon as I release the mouse, whatever
> > I've written disappears.
> > If I share the "white/blackboard" with others, they also see it as
> > black but DO NOT see anything I write.
> > This problem is only with the whiteboard. I can share other screens
> > with no problem.
> > I looked at all the settings and found nothing helpful.
> > A Google search tells me that there could be a problem with my GPU, but
> > the symptoms are that all shared items are black and that is NOT what
> > happens. I ONLY have a problem with the whiteboard.
> >
> > I should mention that in Kubuntu 18.04 everything worked
> > "out-of-the-box" after installing ZOOM from a .deb file (from the ZOOM
> > site).
> >
> > In 20.04 there is a snap install of ZOOM. I thought that the snap might
> > be the problem so I removed it and installed from the .deb file but
> > that did not solve the problem.
> >
> > Any help/ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Shlomo Solomon
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> > Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.15.5 - Kubuntu 20.04
> >
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