Get zoom to work

2018-01-02 - How to get the zoom video conferencing tool to work on gentoo
Tag: Gentoo

The problem

The zoom video conderencing tool works on gentoo, but since it is not integrated in a desktop environment on my machine (I am running an i3 window manager) I cannot authenticate on the google corporate domain where I work. Here is how to work around that.

Running the client

./ZoomLauncher

Working around the “zoommtg address not understood” error

When you try to authenticate you will have your web browser pop up with a link it cannot interpret. You need to get the zoommtg://.* thing and run it in another ZoomLauncher (do not close the zoom process that spawned this authentication link or the authentication will fail :

./ZoomLauncher 'zoommtg://zoom.us/google?code=XXXXXXXX'