Zoom disappears after ending screenshare

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1

I just switched to from KDE Plasma to Gnome and had a weird issue in two different Zoom meetings: when I stopped screen sharing, the meeting window was completely invisible. I could see that there was an invisible window with the Zoom icon in the overview, and when someone else started sharing I could see the little pencil “annotate” icon, but I couldn’t get the zoom window to come back. This never happened on KDE Plasma. Hopefully this is the right place to ask.

Here’s my system info:

System Details Report

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  • Date generated: 2026-01-07 09:07:43

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Framework Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen 7040Series
  • Memory: 32.0 GiB
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 7640U w/ Radeon™ 760M Graphics × 12
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon™ 760M Graphics
  • Disk Capacity: (null)

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 03.17
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 49
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64
2

I could no longer use screenshare, using the KDE version of Fedora 43 but also Wayland. I believe that’s the issue. And it’s a big issue. I don’t think you mentioned whether it was Flatpak or from the Fedora repositories.

3

I have the Flatpak. I can try downloading the .rpm file. I can also try changing the screensharing mode to Pipewire.

I don’t know much about Wayland vs X11, but I’ve heard Wayland is better; I don’t think I’d want to switch, right?

4

This has been driving me crazy for the last year or so. It happened on Fedora 42 and now happening on 43 with me (recently upgraded). I think it’s a Wayland issue, but haven’t been able to track it down yet. it works sometimes, but it’s rare.

I’m on:
OS: Fedora 43
DE: GNOME 49.5
Window System: Wayland
Kernel: 6.19.10-200.fc43.x86_64
zoom: 7.0.0.1666

Zoom is the current latest installed with the RPM from their site.

5

You should report this issue to Zoom Support. They have access to the source so should be able to determine the cause. If it is a bug in Wayland they can provide actionable details to Wayland devs.