I was asked a simple question that has me stumped: how can I turn on the camera on my laptop to see what it sees? Genius that I am, I was left with my jaw on the floor. There is no end of sites that want me to buy their baby monitor software or to sign up to test my webcam, but I just want to turn on the dang laptop camera. Why is it so hard?
Especially first thing in the morning, crikey I got told I look like a bruiser in the morning.
I’m always scaring my missus first thing, as my body and brain act like a caveman.
Not worth talking to me in the morning, as I’ll just grunt and snarl, not angrily just primally.
To get your webcam going, you can install guvcview, cheese or any webcam app from repos.
You’ll get a better idea if you install Synaptic Package Manager, as Ubuntu does not have Synaptic installed as default, because of their Snaps approach to everything.
