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I used a second screen demo. When I clicked on the arrow button on the green box (it can be seen in the attached image) at this point the screen sharing control panel disappeared. I don't know how to restore it.

Now it turns out that I can start screen sharing, but I cannot end it. I can't control screen sharing at all. No hotkeys help. Reinstalling the program does not help. Can anyone please help?

At least help me reset all settings so that the program is like new.

ps. Sorry for my English

screen sharing control panel

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karel
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The zoom client is buggy, I found a solution for this, but note the following may cause you to lose your configured settings of zoom, or maybe your chat history, however, these are not important to me so I just did it, and no losses:

  1. remove the ~/.zoom/ folder
  2. open zoom and relogin with your account
  3. enter a new meeting and share screen, the control panel appears again!
Junfeng Qiao
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I got the same issue but managed to resolve it with un-/installing the application. I use the zoom-client Snap, though. First, I uninstalled the Snap in the Software Center. Then, I completely removed the ~/snap/zoom-client directory. Finally, I installed the Snap again. This reset the configuration, including the visibility of the screen sharing controls.

I also had a look at the configuration files in ~/snap/zoom-client but I couldn't find any that seemed relevant to this issue.

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Enabling "Always show meeting controls" in Zoom settings helped with this nonsense.

Alternatively, Wayland on KDE shows a tray icon when screen is being shared. Using it to stop the screen share will also make Zoom open the meeting window again.

It's frustrating that clicking "Return to meeting" from the main Zoom window doesn't bring the control panel neither the meeting window back in focus when the screen is being shared. Equally frustrating is the meeting window lacking a "Stop sharing" button.

Windows that should be popups (e.g. "John started sharing") are treated like regular windows by tiling managers and windows that require user interaction - such as the control panel - just disappear from sight.

It feels like Zoom devs do some things in the most backwards way possible.

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