{"id":11612,"date":"2021-04-10T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T11:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:27:53","slug":"zoom-display-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2021\/04\/10\/zoom-display-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom (the videotelephony software) and the &#8220;weird initial display name problem&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoom_(software)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoom_(software)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A while ago I installed the Zoom app for macOS and since then, I always first appeared in Zoom sesssions using a name, that I intended to use in a certain community <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only<\/span>. That irritated people quite a little. I really, really wanted to change that. I searched, and searched, and searched, but I did not find the right way for quite some time \u2013 now I found a way. My problem was created through my preferred way to start a video conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My preferred way (&#8220;path a&#8221;) to start <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> video conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>switch to my running Chrome window (with quite a few open tabs),<\/li><li>and open a new tab,<\/li><li>enter the conference link within the search field;<\/li><li>when offered the option to switch to the app: go for it!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that way there is no step, that allows me to change my initial display name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Path b&#8221;: If I go to the Zoom app and press &#8220;<em>Join A Meeting<\/em>&#8220;, the app forces men to enter the session password, which I don&#8217;t need to enter, if I proceed using &#8220;path a&#8221; \u2013 but this is the advantage of using &#8220;path b&#8221;: the app allows me to enter an individual display name, and even more important: the app allows me to toggle the &#8220;<em>Remember my name for future meetings<\/em>&#8221; fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am so relieved now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BTW: I am certainly not the only one in the world with the &#8220;weird initial display name problem&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techjunkie.com\/zoom-change-name\/\">https:\/\/www.techjunkie.com\/zoom-change-name\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoom_(software) A while ago I installed the Zoom app for macOS and since then, I always first appeared in Zoom sesssions using a name, that I intended to use in a certain community only. That irritated people quite a little. I really, really wanted to change that. I searched, and searched, and searched, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[1484],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-zoom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-31i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11614,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions\/11614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}