Re: [orca-list] Zoom: can't get some information and can't unmute myself

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

I can't answer the OP's questions directly. But I've found that Zoom is 
much more accessible after I went into Settings and checked the box for 
having controls visible at all times. To get the controls to show up the 
first time so you can get to the settings, you can press control+\.


Here is a bash script I wrote to keep my copy of Zoom up to date. It can 
also be used to install Zoom for the first time. I put the script in 
/usr/local/bin/ and then created a symlink to it in /etc/cron.daily/.

Note: You can get the script to print progress reports by setting the 
environmental variable "verbose" to a valuge greater than zero.
=== begin script ===
#!/bin/bash

test -z "$verbose" && verbose=0
url=https://zoom.us/client/latest/
file=zoom_amd64.deb
cd /tmp

test $verbose -gt 0 && echo "Fetching $url$file"
wget -qN $url$file
availableVersion=`dpkg -f $file version`

text=$(dpkg -s zoom 2>/dev/null)
installed=$(echo "$text" | grep -c '^Status: install ok')
if [ $installed -gt 0 ]; then
        installedVersion=$(echo "$text" | grep ^Version: | sed -e 's/Version: //')
else
        installedVersion=None
fi
test $verbose -gt 0 && echo "Available version is $availableVersion, 
installed version is $installedVersion."
if [ "$installedVersion" != "$availableVersion" ]; then
        sudo dpkg -i $file
else
        test $verbose -gt 0 && echo "Zoom is up to date"
fi
# EOF=== end script ===