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diff --git a/content/blog/gentoo/get-zoom-to-work.md b/content/blog/gentoo/get-zoom-to-work.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e4697e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/gentoo/get-zoom-to-work.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: "Get zoom to work" +linkTitle: "Get zoom to work" +date: 2018-01-02 +description: > + How to get the zoom video conferencing tool to work on gentoo +--- + +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 + +{{< highlight yaml >}} +./ZoomLauncher +{{< /highlight >}} + +## 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 : +{{< highlight yaml >}} +./ZoomLauncher 'zoommtg://zoom.us/google?code=XXXXXXXX' +{{< /highlight >}} |