Zoom (flatpak) can't handle external urls from browser

[aquaspy]

Well, I saw 2 issues about it, and I saw that the .desktop file has the zoommtg to handle links, but xgd open still can't open any browser link in zoom. Am I missing something? Thanks!

[davidstrauss]

This has not been an issue I've seen with Flatpak Zoom on Fedora and launching meetings from Chrome. Maybe provide some details for your configuration?

[tweirtx]

I am seeing the same issue. I run Arch with everything up to date, and am launching links from Chromium (though running them with xdg-open at the command line yields the same result). I have noticed that calling flatpak manually (i.e. opening a terminal and running flatpak run us.zoom.Zoom <url> does work however.

[tweirtx]

FWIW, I run KDE Plasma as my DE. In a Debian VM running xfce, the xdg-open approach does seem to work.

[aquaspy]

@davidstrauss hmm, maybe is something at my side maybe. I use artix linux (fork from arch without systemd). Everything is also up to date here too. I run xfce

[aquaspy]

So I FINALLY managed to solve it with the help of a guy from Artix linux community.
Not sure why, but zoom flatpak is not being added to mimeapps list.

To solve use, open this file in your home directory:

.config/mimeapps.list

and add this line:
x-scheme-handler/zoommtg=us.zoom.Zoom.desktop

Be happy :)

[heyakyra]

Some may require the flatpak-xdg-utils package if, on the other hand, your Zoom is installed from one of their distribution package files while your browser is a Flatpak

Unfortunately for me, this doesn't install:

$ rpm-ostree install flatpak-xdg-utils
[…]
Importing rpm-md... done
Resolving dependencies... done
Applying 1 override and 3121 overlays
Processing packages... done
error: Checkout flatpak-xdg-utils-1.0.1-2.fc33.x86_64: Hardlinking 88/737445fe2ccb1f9f3fe3ce7bca3dcca488708f4855868ae925dad2ab4b3b41.file to xdg-email: File exists

[argenkiwi]

In case other Void Linux users end up here (like I did), please read this. Installing the xdg-desktop-portal package solved the issue for me.

In essence, you need to enable XDG support for Flatpak in your distro, similar to what @heyakyra describes.