Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-03 Thread Gary Johnson
I've used Jitsi Meet at work for many of my pair programming sessions on and off for the past few years. It's really quite simple to use from Guix. Step 1. Install `ungoogled-chromium`. Step 2. Open https://meet.jit.si in Chromium. Step 3. Type the name of the video chat room that you want to cr

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-02 Thread Csepp
Akib Azmain Turja writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Benjamin Slade writes: > >> Depending on the exact use case, there are some other possibilities >> that don't run "natively" on Guix, but are still free software and >> could be installed from Flatpak or Nix. E.g. the Signal client fo

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-02 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Luis, Luis Felipe writes: > Hi Gottfried, > > On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 15:47, Gottfried wrote: > >> Has somebody got experience with Jami or Mumble? > > I've used Jami until recently. As other people already mentioned, installing > the "jami" package should be enough. > > I only used

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-02 Thread Akib Azmain Turja
Benjamin Slade writes: > Depending on the exact use case, there are some other possibilities > that don't run "natively" on Guix, but are still free software and > could be installed from Flatpak or Nix. E.g. the Signal client for > desktop and Matrix Element. > > Though, actually, I think the Nh

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-02 Thread Benjamin Slade
Depending on the exact use case, there are some other possibilities that don't run "natively" on Guix, but are still free software and could be installed from Flatpak or Nix. E.g. the Signal client for desktop and Matrix Element. Though, actually, I think the Nheko client for Matrix (available a

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-02 Thread David Lecompte
Le lundi 01 août 2022 à 15:26 +, Gottfried a écrit : > > Jitsi Meet isn't in guix. But Jami is there. Jitsi is for voice / video calls / screen sharing, it requires running a server on one machine but particpants just need a web browser (major web browser work). I use a cheap VPS to run a Ji

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi Gottfried, On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 15:47, Gottfried wrote: > Has somebody got experience with Jami or Mumble? I've used Jami until recently. As other people already mentioned, installing the "jami" package should be enough. I only used it to converse with one person at a time, not g

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Gottfried, Gottfried writes: > Thanks for all answers, > > I want to use my laptop and talk to somebody or even exeptionally to > others (several people) in a room, connected through one > laptop. (through more laptops - I haven't done it yet, so I don't > know) > > Earlier I used Skype. > >

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread (
On Mon Aug 1, 2022 at 4:47 PM BST, Gottfried wrote: > 1 for mumble, 9 for murmur, which belong together, as far as I > understand it. Murmur is a non-cryptographic hash function which has absolutely nothing to do with Mumble (though it's entirely possible Mumble uses a MurmurHash somewhere)...

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread Gottfried
Hi Guixers, Sorry, I forgot to mention "mumble" besides "Jami" and "Jitsi Meet". Only Jami and Mumble are available in Guix. mumble: Version 1.4.230 Defined at gnu/packages/telephony.scm:556 (guix channel) Installation command: guix install mumble Pac

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread (
On Mon Aug 1, 2022 at 4:26 PM BST, Gottfried wrote: > jami 20220726.1515.da8d1da Qt Jami client https://jami.net You want this one. The rest are all internal things, except for: > jami-gnome20220726.1515.da8d1da Qt Jami client https://jami.net which is a legacy client, based on GTK. The

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread Gottfried
Thanks for all answers, I want to use my laptop and talk to somebody or even exeptionally to others (several people) in a room, connected through one laptop. (through more laptops - I haven't done it yet, so I don't know) Earlier I used Skype. Jitsi Meet isn't in guix. But Jami is there. T

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Gottfried, "(" writes: > On Mon Aug 1, 2022 at 12:55 PM BST, Akib Azmain Turja wrote: >> There is a software named Jitsi Meet, through I think that's not what >> you want. > Also, Jitsi only really has a web application. (There *is* a desktop app, > but it's written in Java and appears to be

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread (
On Mon Aug 1, 2022 at 12:55 PM BST, Akib Azmain Turja wrote: > There is a software named Jitsi Meet, through I think that's not what > you want. Also, Jitsi only really has a web application. (There *is* a desktop app, but it's written in Java and appears to be abandoned, and it's not in Guix.)

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread Akib Azmain Turja
Gottfried writes: > Hi Guixers, > > is there a substitute for Skype available in Guix? > > I don't want to use Skype as a Microsoft Programm. > > Gottfried > > There is a software named Jitsi Meet, through I think that's not what you want. -- Akib Azmai

Re: substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread (
On Mon Aug 1, 2022 at 12:00 PM BST, Gottfried wrote: > is there a substitute for Skype available in Guix? Try GNU Jami or Mumble. (Not sure how good these are, I just know that they do video conferencing.) -- (

substitute for Skype

2022-08-01 Thread Gottfried
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