Jitsi Meet desktop application powered by :electron:
FreifunkMeet is a desktop client application powered by Electron, designed to provide secure video conferencing and online meetings using Jitsi Meet.
Key Features:
End-to-End Encryption (Beta): Ensures that your conversations remain private and secure.
Compatibility with Any Jitsi Meet Server: Works seamlessly with any deployment of the Jitsi Meet platform.
Built-in Auto-Updates: Automatically updates to keep the application current and secure.
Screen Sharing: Supports sharing from Windows, Mac, Linux on X11; not available under Wayland due to known issues.
Always-On-Top Window: Keeps your meeting window visible at all times for uninterrupted focus.
Deep Link Support: Quickly join meetings with links like jitsi-meet://myroom.
Installation via winget: Easily install on Windows using the command line.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for organizations and individuals seeking a reliable, self-hosted video conferencing solution. FreifunkMeet offers enhanced security with encryption, ease of use through auto-updates, and seamless integration with existing Jitsi Meet infrastructure, making it a flexible choice across various platforms.
This professional tool supports effective communication and collaboration without compromising on security or user experience.
README
Freifunk Meet Electron
Desktop application for [Jitsi] built with Electron.
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!
The debugger tools are available when running in dev mode, and can be activated with keyboard shortcuts as defined here.
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:
SHOW_DEV_TOOLS=true npm start
Building the production distribution
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:
"@jitsi/electron-sdk": "^3.0.0"
To work with a local copy, you must change the path to:
Create release branch: git checkout -b release-1-2-3, replacing 1-2-3 with the desired release version
Increment the version: npm version patch, replacing patch with minor or major as required
Push release branch to github: git push -u origin release-1-2-3
Create PR: gh pr create
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
Merge PR
Github action will build binaries and attach to the draft release
Test binaries from draft release
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.
