# Zoom-us Wayland Screen Sharing Fix?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zoom-us-wayland-screen-sharing-fix/50343
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [August 8, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zoom-us-wayland-screen-sharing-fix/50343 "2024-08-08T20:51:17Z")
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### Author: ![tscolari](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/tscolari/32/12347_2.png) [@tscolari](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/tscolari)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zoom-us-wayland-screen-sharing-fix/50343/13 "2025-03-07T17:39:34Z")

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I think this is a bug in Zoom rather than a misconfiguration on the system.

For example, if I start zoom as root (e.g. `sudo zoom-us`) sharing works.  
At first I thought it was something related to permissions, maybe a group my user was missing.  
But if I unset the `XDG_SESSION_TYPE` variable, and start zoom as my normal user, sharing works 🤯

For now, if I start zoom like this from the terminal, sharing kind-of-works:

```auto
XDG_SESSION_TYPE="" zoom-us

```

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