Ubuntu 21.04 freezes on zoom Screen share option

Question

Today I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 21.04. It uses Wayland by default, also I have disabled my nvidia card (just selected Integrated Graphics from nvidia-settings). When I installed and tried zoom client from the Ubuntu Software I was not able to share screen on Wayland. Then I logged off and switched to Xorg session and tried the same thing. This time the zoom client freezed when I started to share my screen. There was not such a problem on 20.04, and I guess this is not solely related to Wayland.

Is there any fix for it?

Thanks!

Solution

After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 21.04, I also faced same problem. You just need to do following steps.

• Restart your system
• There is gear icon (bottom right side) on login screen
• Which have two options. First one is Ubuntu which is Wayland by default and another one is Ubuntu on Xorg.
• You have to go for Ubuntu on Xorg

It works for me.

Comments

[guiverc]

FYI: Ubuntu has two upgrade paths that are fully QA-tested, from one release to the next, or from one LTS to the next LTS, so 20.04 was fully QA-tested to move to 20.10 (and 20.10 to 21.04), and 20.04 will be fully QA-tested when 22.04 is near ready. You've gone outside of the intended & thus fully tested upgrade paths.

[Vahid Pazirandeh]

You saved my day, thx. One addition: Initially the gear icon wasn't there until I pressed Enter which made the password input box appear. Seems somewhat related: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/878

[Ankit Singhaniya]

my system froze after using zoom for like 5 minutes, I hope it's temporary :(

[Diego Woitasen]

Wayland is very slow in my laptop. We need to find a solution with wayland :)