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jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron
Jitsi Meet desktop application powered by :electron:
Electron wrapper around the Jitsi Meet web app — it loads the web client in a BrowserWindow and adds desktop-specific features like deep links, always-on-top, and auto-update. Useful for teams self-hosting Jitsi who want a native-feeling client without asking users to manage browser tabs or permissions.
The configurable server URL is genuinely useful for self-hosted deployments — users point the app at their own instance without building a custom client. Auto-update via electron-builder is wired up and working, which is the part most Electron projects get wrong. AppImage builds for both x86_64 and arm64 cover modern Linux setups including Raspberry Pi servers. Deep link support (`jitsi-meet://`) is a small but real quality-of-life feature that makes calendar integrations work.
Remote control has been disabled since 2020 due to a security vulnerability and is still strikethrough text in the README — that's a long time to leave a broken feature advertised. The AppImage breaks on Ubuntu 22.04+ without manual libfuse2 installation and requires `--no-sandbox` on 24.04, which is a meaningful security regression to ask users to accept. The app is essentially a glorified WebView with very little native integration — you're not getting anything you couldn't get from a browser shortcut except the deep links and always-on-top. Windows binaries are unsigned, so every install triggers a SmartScreen warning.