Zoom not working in Ubuntu 22.04

Currently in Ubuntu 22.04, zoom has an error and closes.

Thanks to some digging, I found a solution.

Running the command zoom --disable-gpu-sandbox in a terminal window will successfully launch zoom. (There have been some buggy error messages for some people, but it still runs)

Or, if you want a more permanent solution, you can change the file in /usr/share/applications called Zoom.desktop. 

Remember to use some option to gain sudo privileges to this file. I ran 'sudo nano /usr/share/applications Zoom.desktop' to do so.

That file looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Zoom

Comment=Zoom Video Conference

Exec=/usr/bin/zoom %U

Icon=Zoom

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Encoding=UTF-8

Categories=Network;Application;

StartupWMClass=zoom

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/zoommtg;x-scheme-handler/zoomus;x-scheme-handler/tel;x-scheme-handler/callto;x-scheme-handler/zoomphonecall;application/x-zoom

X-KDE-Protocols=zoommtg;zoomus;tel;callto;zoomphonecall;

Name[en_US]=Zoom

I changed the "Exec=/usr/bin/zoom %U" part to read "Exec=/usr/bin/zoom --disable-gpu-sandbox" and saved the file. 

After this, Zoom launched like a charm for me.

I hope this is helpful,

-Denny