ZOOM whiteboard on Kubuntu 20.04

[Shlomo Solomon]

not an option - I must use ZOOM for my work

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:11:31 +0300
Shay Gover <govershay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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