ZOOM whiteboard on Kubuntu 20.04

[Shlomo Solomon]

I've never used flatpack - I'll try it, but I honestly doubt that that'
will help. Since I have the same problem with the .deb and snap
versions, I really think that the problem is with Kubuntu - or some
setting that I'm missing.



On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:01:17 +0300
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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