WHAT IS THIS?

Camera Monitor is a little tray system icon that notifies you when your Webcam is on.

It is designed for the GNOME desktop, but will work as well on KDE and XFCE.
Camera Monitor is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD IT?

You can get version 0.2 (2007/03/01) from here:
→ Source: cameramonitor-0.2.tar.gz
→ Ubuntu: cameramonitor_0.2-1_all.deb

You can get version 0.1 (2005/09/12) from here:
→ Source: cameramonitor-0.1.tar.gz
→ Ubuntu: cameramonitor_0.1-1_i386.deb

HOW CAN I INSTALL IT?

From sources:

$ tar xzf cameramonitor-0.2.tar.gz
$ cd cameramonitor-0.2
$ ./configure --prefix /usr
$ sudo make install

Ubuntu Feisty and Debian:

$ wget http://infinicode.org/code/cameramonitor/cameramonitor_0.2-1_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cameramonitor_0.2-1_all.deb

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon:

$ sudo apt-get install cameramonitor

HOW CAN I RUN IT?

Launch cameramonitor on command line: cameramonitor
Or from GNOME menu: Applications -> Sound and video -> Camera Monitor

Change preferences on command line: cameramonitor -p
Or from GNOME menu: Preferences -> Camera Monitor

HOW DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

I HAVE A SUGGESTION OR BUG REPORT

Ok, send an email to code [at] infinicode [dot] org