Advice on using Jitsi Meet

[hnimmo]

I’m thinking of ditching Zoom in favour of Jitsi Meet, I wonder if anyone has experience in getting it going on my Gnome/Wayland configurations configurations

[hui]

Cannot run Jitsi Meet Flatpak on Wayland using KDE 6

Hi, I updated to KDE 6 and decided to use Wayland. Everything runs great except video conferencing flatpak ‘Jitsi Meet’ doesn’t launch. It does launch on X11, though. I have another machine running Arch with KDE 6 on Wayland and Jitsi Meet launches just fine on there. This seems to be only happening on Tumbleweed. Anyone know how I can fix this?

[hnimmo]

Thanks, I had noticed this rather old post and hoped that Wayland compatibility may have been resolved in the meantime. If I should also ditch Wayland, what X11 packages should I then install?

[knurpht]

The Jitsi flatpak runs fine here, both on X and Wayland. But the flatpak is just the client. One needs to connect to a server. For our meetings and BAR we use meet.opensuse.org

[arvidjaar]

@knurpht

Jitsi flatpak runs fine here, both on X and Wayland

Out of curiosity I tried it under GNOME Wayland on Ubuntu 24.04. Wayland runs but has no window decorations and leaves visual artefacts where these decorations should have been. X11 looks better (under Xwayland). Depending on requirements (like desktop sharing) Xwayland may not be suitable though.

It is possible things are better in Tumbleweed with more recent GNOME.

[knurpht]

Andrei, FWI I’m on Plasma6 Wayland and literally everything Jitsi works fine. The whole kaboodle

[hnimmo]

@knurpht

The Jitsi flatpak runs fine here, both on X and Wayland. But the flatpak is just the client. One needs to connect to a server. For our meetings and BAR we use meet.opensuse.org

I presume I would have to use google or github, being the two servers suggested by Jisti

[knurpht]

You are completely missing the point. The Jitsi client ( as in the Flatpak ) needs to connect to a Jitsi server (as in meet.opensuse.org/whatever_room_you_want). So if you want f.e. meet.hnimmo.xyz, you need to set that up as a Jitsi server, then connect the client to it. Both Teams and Zoom need such a server, but these are company hosted, no way to self-host them.

[knurpht]

[hnimmo]

@knurpht

You are completely missing the point. The Jitsi client ( as in the Flatpak ) needs to connect to a Jitsi server (as in meet.opensuse.org/whatever_room_you_want). So if you want f.e. meet.hnimmo.xyz, you need to set that up as a Jitsi server, then connect the client to it. Both Teams and Zoom need such a server, but these are company hosted, no way to self-host them.

Thanks for that clarification. Being unsure of the prerequisites of self-hosting, I wasn’t focussing in that direction (yet!). My internet speeds are currently about 57 Mbps (download) and 21 Mbps (upload)… Meeting participants would be max 10, (several of whom are even less technically capable than me! So the outlook is currently not so good.

[knurpht]

Mind, you don’t have to self host, but then you have to connect to some public server. Like meet.jitsi.org ( which requires an account to start a session. Or ours, which doesn’t require that.

[amiya]

Jitsi is dead easy to use as a client. You just open a web browser, go to the Jitsi server you want to use, type in a room name, and wait for whoever you’re trying to talk with to do the same thing. Set a password if you want to keep it private. If you aren’t trying to run your own server, you don’t need to install anything.