Jitsi Meet Electron

Desktop application for Jitsi Meet built with Electron.

Features

End-to-End Encryption support (BETA)
Works with any Jitsi Meet deployment
Built-in auto-updates
Screensharing (Windows, Mac, Linux on X11 only. Not supported under Wayland, see known issues below)
~Remote control~ (currently disabled due to security issues)
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	Download	x64_64 arm64	x86_64 arm64

Third-Party builds

Homebrew

For macOS users, 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.

Show building instructions

#### 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`).

Extra dependencies for Windows

```bash npm install --global --production windows-build-tools ```

Extra dependencies for GNU/Linux

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 ```

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

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 the application window in the first selector and click allow; then do the same in the Jitsi internal selector. This is how sharing application windows works, as sharing a full screen is unfortunately not possible.
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 an AppArmor conflict that restricts unprivileged user namespaces (jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron#965, Ubuntu blog post).

To work around this, disable the use of the sandbox with --no-sandbox:
```
./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage --no-sandbox
```
If you experience a blank page after a Jitsi server upgrades, try removing the local cache files:
```
rm -rf ~/.config/Jitsi\ Meet/
```

Translations

The JSON files contain all the strings inside the application, and can be translated here.

New translations require the addition of a line in index.js.

Localize desktop file on linux requires the addition of a line in 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 License 2.0. See the LICENSE file.

Community

Jitsi is built by a large community of developers. If you want to participate, please join the community forum.

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