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 appli
cations 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 config
ure almost every option from within the GUI. The only rel
evant command-line option is -d to turn on debugging dur
ing calls.
OPTIONS
-d turn on debugging (on the console)
FILES
- /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnomemeeting/
- The system wide configuration file. See gconf-con
fig(1) for further details on gconf. (The actual
place can differ depending on your system's config
uration) - ~/.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 gnomemeet
ing > 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=gnomemeet
ing
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 verfac
tion dot de>, Rafael Pinilla <r_pinilla at yahoo dot com>,
Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk at freshdot dot net>, Santiago Gar
cia 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.gnomemeet
ing.org. You can find info about GnomeMeeting there and
download the latest version. 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 © 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