On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 18:42, George Avrunin <avru...@math.umass.edu> wrote:
> Like many universities, we are converting to working from home and > doing only online instruction as of Monday. (This week is spring break and > faculty get to use it to figure out how to make the online instruction > work.) The campus has a Zoom license and we are urged to use that for > class sessions. I've run into a problem and tried the fix suggested by > Zoom support, but it's not working and I'm hoping someone here can help me. > Trying to interact with Zoom support gets a "we're too busy right now" > message.... > > The problem is sharing a window/screen (desktop). I can share from my > Fedora desktop, but when I stop the sharing Zoom crashes (or, in some > configurations--see below--sharing a window/screen just blacks out the > window/screen being shared). Zoom support indicates that this is mostly a > problem with something automatically switching from the nvidia card to a > built-in card and suggests running > xcompmgr -c -l0 -t0 -r0 -o.00 > With the nvidia driver, this seems to have little or no effect. It does > seem to work with nouveau, but I'm getting an annoying flashing of (at > least some windows on) the screen with nouveau (and I'm losing some > performance that I'd like to keep for other purposes). > You don't mention if Wayland is involved. > > > Here are the details: > [...] > I also have a Dell XPS 13 laptop running Fedora 31, also running KDE. It > doesn't have this problem (but I hope not to have to use it for online > teaching; the screen is too small and it's one of the ones with the webcam > at the bottom of the screen, so if you can reach the keyboard to type, the > camera is looking up your nose). > > Thanks for any suggestions you can give me. > > George > Can you use an external monitor, mouse, and keyboard with the laptop (and position laptop for best camera placement)? -- George N. White III
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