On my work laptop I have to use Zoom for communications. Unfortunately it does not play nicely with Linux, especially together with my favored compositor niri.

After trying out a lot of settings I found an acceptable configuration:

• The main windows are in tiling layout
• All other windows from Zoom are in floating layout
• Screensharing works in Wayland

niri configuration

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This window rule detects all windows from Zoom as floating, except the main windows:

~/.config/niri/config.kdl

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window-rule {
    match app-id="^(zoom|us.zoom.Zoom)$"
    exclude title="^.*Zoom Workplace"
    open-floating true
}

Zoom configuration

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For screensharing in Wayland this needs to be set in ~/.config/zoomus.conf:

[General]
enableWaylandShare=true
xwayland=false

Wrap Up

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With these settings, Zoom is usable with the niri compositor. It’s still not great, but a good start.