[Nottingham] Webcams

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Thu Jul 15 08:58:13 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:14:08PM +0200, Frederic Vagner wrote:
> I wonder : what can you do with a webcam on Linux. I can't make it work
> with Pidgin, as apparently it does not support webcams, what can you do
> with it ?

If you're specifically looking for an IM client that does webcams on
linux then certainly amsn does and I believe kopete has some support.

Other things might now too but I know amsn works.

Simon

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