gnomemeeting(1) Version 0.9x gnomemeeting(1)
NAME
gnomemeeting - H323 Videoconferencing for UN*X
SYNOPSIS
gnomemeeting [-d]
DESCRIPTION
GnomeMeeting is a H.323 Video Conferencing application which uses the H.323 protocol (provided by the OpenH323 library). It can connect to
a variety of other H323 applications including Microsoft NetMeeting. It also supports ILS (the Microsoft version of LDAP) and XDAP servers.
GnomeMeeting can work with or without a webcam, and is able to create pure audio communications or traditionnal audio+video communications.
GnomeMeeting has been designed for the GNOME desktop and therefore uses gconfd-2(1) for storing its userdata. It offers to configure almost
every option from within the GUI. The only relevant command-line option is -d to turn on debugging during calls.
OPTIONS
-d turn on debugging (on the console)
FILES
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnomemeeting/
The system wide configuration file. See gconf-config(1) for further details on gconf. (The actual place can differ depending on your
system's configuration)
~/.gconf/apps/gnomemeeting
Per user configuration file. See gconf-config(1) for further details.
ENVIRONMENT
On startup GnomeMeeting reads the system-wide gconf schemas (like every other GNOME2 app should do) from
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps. Every modification of the gconf keys using the GUI, gconftool or gconf-editor is reflected in real-
time by GnomeMeeting.
DIAGNOSTICS
The following diagnostics may occur:
Please check your gconf settings and permissions, it seems that gconf is not properly setup on your system
gconfd-1 is running and you're trying to start gnomemeeting > 0.91 which needs gconfd-2
-> kill gconfd-1 and try again
your gconf-dir isn't set to mode 4755
-> set chmod -R 4755 /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
More problems are described in greater detail in the FAQ and Mailinglist-archive (see BUGS and GETTING HELP).
BUGS
Currently some users are still experiencing problems with gconf, as the gconf-utilization is newly introduced in GNOME2. Hopefully this
will be solved once GNOME2 is shipped with all major distributions with working gconf setup. See bugzilla on
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnomemeeting
to obtain the current list of bugs.
GETTING HELP
Feel free to join #gnomemeeting on irc.gnome.org (GIMPnet) or the ML at:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
after having read the FAQ at
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/faq.php .
AUTHOR
Damien Sandras <dsandras at seconix dot com>
CODE CONTRIBUTORS
Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at gnu dot org>, Miguel Rodriguez Perez <migrax at terra dot es>, Paul <paul at argo dot dyndns dot
org>, Roger Hardiman <roger at freebsd dot org>
CONTRIBUTORS
Alex Larsson <alexl at redhat dot com>, Alp Toker <alp at toker.com>, Christian Rose <menthos at menthos dot com>, Christopher R. Gabriel
<cgabriel at cgabriel dot org>, Fabrice Alphonso <fabrice.alphonso at wanadoo.fr>, Florin <florin at mandrakesoft.com>, Kilian Krause <kk
at verfaction dot de>, Rafael Pinilla <r_pinilla at yahoo dot com>, Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk at freshdot dot net>, Santiago Garcia Mantinan
<manty at manty dot net>, Stefan Bruens <lurch at gmx dot li>, Vincent Deroo <crossdatabase at aol dot com>, and all the others who are not
listed here, but do a great job on the IRC channel.
OTHER INFO
The webpage for GnomeMeeting is at http://www.gnomemeeting.org. You can find info about GnomeMeeting there and download the latest ver-
sion. Either as packages for all major distributions or as sourcecode. Patched version of the libs are available, if neccessary. CVS
instructions are at http://www.gnomemeeting.org/faq.php#AEN208.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Damien Sandras
This is free software licensed under the GPLv2; see the LICENSE file in the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even
for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
gconf-config(1), gconfd-1(1), gconfd-2(1), gconftool-1(1), gconftool-2(1), gconfigger(1)
OpenH323 and PWLib can be found at http://www.openh323.org
Linux 23 April 2002 gnomemeeting(1)