Zoom and Compton

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If you use Zoom and Compton in a combination you might already had the issue that if you start sharing in zoom, you got a grey/dark overlay (shadow).

The fix for that was to disable Compton shadow in general or exclude Zoom Share Frame (“cpt_frame_window”) in the Compton shadow config.

E.g. in .config/compton.conf

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shadow-exclude = [
  "name = 'cpt_frame_window'"
];

But since Zoom version 5.9.3 the problem came back again because Zoom renamed the name of Zoom Share Frame to “cpt_frame_xcb_window”. So that it can be adjusted the same way.

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shadow-exclude = [
  "name = 'cpt_frame_xcb_window'"
];