Application-specific : Zoom-us makes the tiling behave weird

Hello,

I've noticed that the application Zoom made the shell behaves strangely, it might be multiple bugs that are trigger, so I'm just going to describe as close as possible what I observe.

If you need more information, I can try to fetch all the logs from gnome-shell if needed.

1. When joining a call, it can simply break tiling manager (no more tiling active on any window). Even after killing the process, only a logout-login will fix the issue.
2. If it doesn't crash, when I resize I often see an error about a fork not found.

Disclaimer : English is not my mother tongue, and I sometime have trouble to explain the behaviors, let me know if I'm not clear and you need more precision ! :).

[mmstick]

Is it just Zoom that's causing this behavior? Logs make listen would be helpful.

Only zoom, yes.

I'm going to test it with make listen by the end of the day !

[lmirguet]

Hello

I also have problems with this extension when using the zoom client:
It seems that, when zoom closes its windows, the windows are not correctly closed, and they still appear in the dash.

In this capture, the zoom application is closed... No more zoom process runs on the computer. If I try to click on this zoom icon, it crashes the gnome shell !

In this case, my only solution is to restart gnome.

When the tiling extension is disabled. I don't have any problem... everything works as expected.

[connorlay]

I am also experiencing this issue, both on Pop_OS! 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. My Zoom desktop version is 5.0.x, the latest version available for Linux.

@mmstick I may have missed this in the installation instructions, but is there a way to view the logs after a system reboot? When I hit this crash it completely freezes my system, requiring a full restart.

EDIT: It appears this bug only occurs for me once I join a meeting with other participants. Is that consistent with what others are seeing?

[JonathanReeve]

For me, Zoom doesn't appear to be tiling at all, on the latest pop-shell. It just floats above all other tiling windows.

[connorlay]

@JonathanReeve Take a look at your floating window exceptions, under "System Exceptions" it has Zoom disabled by default. You can enable tiling from there is you are ok with how it behaves.