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

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Thank you very much!  I'll check it out.


Best!

Al


On 11/18/21 11:20 AM, John G. Heim via orca-list wrote:
> 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 ===
>
>
>
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