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# Jitsi Meet Electron
Desktop application for [Jitsi Meet] built with [Electron].
## Features
- [End-to-End Encryption](https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/) support (BETA)
- Works with any Jitsi Meet deployment
- Builtin auto-updates
- Screensharing (Windows, Mac, X11 only. Not supported under Wayland, see known issues below)
- ~Remote control~ (currently [disabled](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/483) due to [security issues](https://github.com/jitsi/security-advisories/blob/master/advisories/JSA-2020-0001.md))
- Always-On-Top window
- Support for deeplinks such as `jitsi-meet://myroom` (will open `myroom` on the configured Jitsi instance) or `jitsi-meet://jitsi.mycompany.com/myroom` (will open `myroom` on the Jitsi instance running on `jitsi.mycompany.com`)
## Installation
Download our latest release and you're off to the races!
| Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux (AppImage) | GNU/Linux (Deb) |
| -- | -- | -- | -- |
| [Download](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest/download/jitsi-meet.exe) | [Download](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest/download/jitsi-meet.dmg) | [x64_64](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest/download/jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage) [arm64](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest/download/jitsi-meet-arm64.AppImage) | [x86_64](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest/download/jitsi-meet-amd64.deb) [arm64](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest/download/jitsi-meet-arm64.deb) |
### Third-Party builds
[<img src="https://dl.flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.svg"
alt="Download On Flathub"
height="60">](https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.jitsi.jitsi-meet)
### Homebrew
For *macOS* user, you can install the application using the following command:
```
brew install --cask jitsi-meet
```
## Development
If you want to hack on this project, here is how you do it.
<details><summary>Show building instructions</summary>
#### Installing dependencies
Install Node.js 20 first (or if you use [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm), switch to Node.js 20 by running `nvm use`).
<details><summary>Extra dependencies for Windows</summary>
```bash
npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
```
</details>
<details><summary>Extra dependencies for GNU/Linux</summary>
X11, PNG, and zlib development packages are necessary. On Debian-like systems, they can be installed as follows:
```bash
sudo apt install libx11-dev zlib1g-dev libpng-dev libxtst-dev
```
</details>
Install all required packages:
```bash
npm install
```
#### Starting in development mode
```bash
npm start
```
The debugger tools are available when running in dev mode, and can be activated with keyboard shortcuts as [defined here](https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-debug#features).
They can also be displayed automatically with the application `--show-dev-tools` command line flag, or with the `SHOW_DEV_TOOLS` environment variable as shown:
```bash
SHOW_DEV_TOOLS=true npm start
```
#### Building the production distribution
```bash
npm run dist
```
#### Working with `jitsi-meet-electron-sdk`
[`jitsi-meet-electron-sdk`] is a helper package which implements many features
such as remote control and the always-on-top window. If new features are to be
added or tested, running with a local version of these utils is very handy.
By default, the @jitsi/electron-sdk is build from `npm`. The default dependency path in `package.json` is:
```json
"@jitsi/electron-sdk": "^3.0.0"
```
To work with a local copy, you must change the path to:
```json
"@jitsi/electron-sdk": "file:///Users/name/jitsi-meet-electron-sdk-copy",
```
To build the project, you must force it to take the sources, as `npm update` will
not do it.
```bash
npm install @jitsi/electron-sdk --force
```
NOTE: Also check the [`jitsi-meet-electron-sdk` `README`] to see how to configure
your environment.
#### Publishing
1. Create release branch: `git checkout -b release-1-2-3`, replacing `1-2-3` with the desired release version
2. Increment the version: `npm version patch`, replacing `patch` with `minor` or `major` as required
3. Push release branch to github: `git push -u origin release-1-2-3`
4. Create PR: `gh pr create`
5. Once PR is reviewed and ready to merge, create draft Github release: `gh release create v1.2.3 --draft --title 1.2.3`, replacing `v1.2.3` and `1.2.3` with the desired release version
6. Merge PR
7. Github action will build binaries and attach to the draft release
8. Test binaries from draft release
9. If all tests are fine, publish draft release
</details>
## Known issues
### Windows
A warning that the app is unsigned will show up upon first install. This is expected.
### macOS
None
### GNU/Linux
* If you can't execute the file directly after downloading it, try running `chmod u+x ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage`
* Under wayland, screensharing is currently buggy:
* Sharing a full screen is not possible
* When trying to start screensharing under wayland, 2 permission popups will show up. First a pipewire based system selector, then a jitsi internal selector. Select an application window in the first selector and then the same in the jitsi internal selector. Sharing application windows works via this, sharing a full screen unfortunately not.
* On Ubuntu 22.04 and later, the AppImage will fail with a fuse error (as the AppImage uses `libfuse2`, while 22.04 comes with `libfuse3` by default):
```
dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2
```
To fix this, install libfuse2 as follows:
```
sudo apt install libfuse2
```
* On Ubuntu 24.04 and later, the AppImage will fail with a sandboxing error (`The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly...`)
This is due to AppArmor conflicting by restricting unprivileged user namespaces (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/965,
[Ubuntu blog post](https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged-user-namespaces)).
To workaround this, disable the use of the sandbox with `--no-sandbox`:
```
./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage --no-sandbox
```
* If you experience a blank page after jitsi server upgrades, try removing the local cache files:
```
rm -rf ~/.config/Jitsi\ Meet/
```
## Translations
The JSON files are for all the strings inside the application, and can be translated [here](/app/i18n/lang).
New translations require the addition of a line in [index.js](/app/i18n/index.js).
`Localize desktop file on linux` requires the addition of a line in [package.json](/package.json).
Please search for `Comment[hu]` as an example to help add your translation of the English string `Jitsi Meet Desktop App` for your language.
## License
Apache 2. See the [LICENSE] file.
## Community
Jitsi is built by a large community of developers. If you want to participate,
please join the [community forum].
[Jitsi Meet]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
[Electron]: https://electronjs.org/
[latest release]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest
[`jitsi-meet-electron-sdk`]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron-sdk
[`jitsi-meet-electron-sdk` `README`]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron-sdk/blob/master/README.md
[community forum]: https://community.jitsi.org/
[LICENSE]: LICENSE
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