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
• Screen sharing
• 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!

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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 22 first (or if you use nvm, switch to it by running nvm use).

Extra dependencies for Windows

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:

sudo apt install libx11-dev zlib1g-dev libpng-dev libxtst-dev

Install all required packages:

npm install

Starting in development mode

npm start

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

For instructions on SDK versus electron-app separation and how to set up local development using npm link, please refer to the Contributing and Local Development guide in the Jitsi Handbook.

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

• 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.