My wife recently switched over to Mint instead of upgrading to Windows 11, and everything has worked perfectly except for one thing.
The Zoom app for Windows has native iPad integration, making it super easy for her to use her iPad when on a Zoom call, but the Zoom app for Linux doesn’t seem to have the same functionality.
Does anyone know of a way (preferably in Zoom, but also out of it if necessary) to easily share her iPad screen over a Zoom call?
UPDATE: So, it’s been confirmed that the option to connect an iPad wirelessly to a PC on a Zoom meeting is not available in the Linux version of Zoom, because it’s a proprietary function on both Mac and Windows. The option is literally just not there in the Linux Zoom version.
We ended up going with UxPlay, which isn’t perfect, but it was better for her purposes than just doing the Zoom call on the iPad.
Note that if UxPlay is laggy, you should start it with the command “uxplay -vsync no” to disable the audio/video syncing function, which apparently makes it behave more like a traditional stream, which is what she needed. And since she was only using it to draw and take notes for the group, she had no need for audio.
Thanks everyone for all of the help. At this point I’m considering the issue solved, though the solution is a bit clunkier and more awkward than we’d like. Still, she’s so tired of proprietary BS (even moreso now) and so glad to see her computer actually not acting like it’s moving through molasses on bloated, last-legs Windows 10 that I think she’s willing to accept a reasonable amount of clunk in Mint with a pretty big smile. :)
If you’re talking about the presentation mode features, that’s built into the zoom client. Join on one machine, then join from the iPad in remote/presentation mode. I’m not aware of another feature where a tablet pairs with a host machine as part of Zoom itself, but maybe there was an OS feature that did so.
Now that I’ve gotten home and played with it a bit, unfortunately, remote/presentation mode isn’t what she’s looking for, because it doesn’t work with her iPad Notes app the way she needs it to. It shows the entire iPad screen no matter what, instead of the portion she’s using for drawing/notes.
It turns out that on the Mac and Windows versions of Zoom, there’s an option in Advanced Settings that is specifically connecting an iPad through AirPlay. Unfortunately, as I’ve found out, this is a proprietary setting only allowed on the Mac and Windows versions, and specifically excluded from the Linux version. There’s just a blank space where the option usually would be.
Luckily, the notes app function she needs does work when using UxPlay, so that’s what we ultimately decided to go with, even though it’s a bit clunkier and laggier than connecting directly through Zoom.
Thanks for the help!
Nice. Glad you found a solution.
I’m confused, what does the PC have to do with anything here? Do you not just share your screen from the Zoom app on the iPad?
The PC has multiple monitors, a full-sized keyboard, and support for many windows on the screen, which makes it much easier to get work done while on a call, while the iPad is very convenient for drawing diagrams, etc. when on a call, much more so than the built in whiteboard.
So, she hosts the call on her computer so that she can do all of the multitasking she needs to during the meeting, and she connects her iPad so that she can draw and comment on precise diagrams in a way that isn’t really possible without the iPad.
From another comment it seems like she might just be missing the feature that’s usually there, but I wanted to be prepared with alternatives when I got home this evening just in case so that she’d be ready for work tomorrow no matter what.
Edit: See the OP - this is not the case. This is a proprietary function that is only available in the Mac and Windows version of Zoom, so it’s not present in the Linux version at all.