Zoom Screenshare in i3wm

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When on a zoom call, if I screen share, the screen I share would be visible to the call, but not to me. For example, I want to share my browser - I get a black space in place of the browser, but if I preview what other zoom participants see, they see my browser.

This video shows my perspective reasonably well. The example starts around 00:00:56.

The video’s suggestion worked. Use xcompmgr.

I start it in the background when X starts by adding it to ~/.xprofile:

xcompmgr -c &

The default background I have on an empty tmux screen is now gray instead of black, though… so that’s something new. But now I can screenshare!