Taming Zoom with Ratpoison, part 2

 It's been already 2 years since the last zoom hack, and it worked fine for some time, but since January 2021, Zoom was behaving even worse on my ratpoison setup. Hijacks of popup windows left me without being able to join zoom with any sort of confidence.

A temporary solution is to use ratpoison's tmpwm, but there's another wrinkle there. In the latest official ratpoison release (1.4.9, from 2017), there's a bug that makes ratpoison not be able to go back from a tmpwm if you have multiple screens. It is fixed in the git version, but having to compile your own WM is yet another yak to shave. (Even more when using nixos). 

So I spoke to a coworker who's a StumpWM user and asked if stump had those issues.

So, it turns his hack worked, and it consists of changing the .config/zoomus.conf. Changing config files on proprietary applications reminds me of my reverse-engineer times on Windows 98.

Anyway:

sed -i 's/enableMiniWindow=true/enableMiniWindow=false/' ~/.config/zoomus.conf

Thanks, Tim and good luck!