Start a video conversation with one of your contacts. Milo Casagrande milo@ubuntu.com

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 Start a video conversation

If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have a video conversation with them. This features only works with certain types of accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that supports video calls.

From the Contact List window, click the video call icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose Video Call.

A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will see Connected at the bottom of the window, along with the total conversation time.

To end the conversation, click on Hang up.

To turn a video conversation into an audio conversation, choose VideoVideo Off.

Start a video conversation with a meta-contact

From the Contact List window, right-click on the meta-contact.

Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu select Video Call.

To recognize if a contact is a meta-contact, move your mouse on a contact in the Contact List window, and stop over it for a second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the contacts that form the meta-contact.