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by asdff 1242 days ago
I deal with them in bash. Zoom meetings are added to my calendar on my mac. I have a function that will use icalbuddy (1) to parse my calendar events and pull up the next upcoming zoom meeting id. Then I have another function that just runs 'open "zoommtg://myorg.zoom.us/join?confno=$1"'. A third "quality of life" function just pipes the output of my upcoming meeting function that contains the upcoming meeting id to my open function so I don't have to type much. Using open with the url reformatted as such will just open zoom to the meeting and not a browser.

1. https://hasseg.org/icalBuddy/

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Thanks for this idea. Apparently we have similar pet peeves. [0]

Do you know how to stop the Zoom app from stealing focus when it opens? Often I open it, and while it's loading, I move to a new window (on another monitor), and then when Zoom finally loads, it steals focus from my current window.

It's quite disconcerting and a good reminder it's an app running with elevated privileges. And I swear I found a way to disable it once, but then it started happening again...

[0] ever tried copying a Zoom meeting link from the Outlook web interface? IYKYK