On Monday 24 May 2021 13.57:11 Mavridis Philippe wrote:
Hello Thierry,
xdg-open is a program which starts the default application for a file format or a protocol. It is usually run by most web-browsers when they do not know how to handle a protocol, independently of whether you have the needed application or not.
Does the "Call" button point to a link? What protocol does that link use? Maybe you need a special client application for Jitsi?
I never really saw this link. It might be:
https://8x8.vc/vpaas-magic-cookie-b140a0b5ec384b5db9402c0551fc1010/<room_address>
as this is the link I get to share.
And no, I dont need a special client. This is what I have:
Notebook: - Click on the "Call" button - xdg-open dialog - click on Open xdg-open -> reopens browser - click on Cancel -> nothing happens
Desktop: - Click on the "Call" button -> a side window opens to let me connect
Both computers run the same Debian 10, same software installed. I'm pretty sure that it *did* work on th notebook at the start. And as the exact same behaviour happens whatever the browser I use, I think "something" has been written "somewhere" that causes xdg-open to do the wrong thing, but I don't know where to look.
Unfortunately the desktop has neither camera nor microphone, so it's of litle use for on-line conferences...
For me with MS-Teams, it shows the same prompt (open with xdg-open?), in which I click "Cancel" and then proceed to click "Join with this browser", which lets me join through the web-browser.
Nope, not here. http://meet.jit.si let's me connect if I have the right room address, which I can get using the desktop.
So http://meet.jit.si/<room_address> lets me connect but then I am no more in the shared environment (where the video is only a side window).
Mavridis Philippe
Thierry