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I've got cheese (3.18.1) running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. However, when I run it, there are no preferences.

In theory, when you run it, the camera can be set via preferences, as described here:

Where's the settings/preferences in Cheese photo booth?

However, sometimes (like in my situation), the preferences menu doesn't drop down. There is a workaround, but it isn't ideal:

Gnome Cheese settings/prefs menu is missing

What about starting cheese from the command line? Does anyone have an example of how to select the device? I've tried the device number (from lsusb) and name, but all I get is a segmentation fault, so I guess I'm doing something wrong. For example, this:

cheese --device "USB camera"

Any thoughts? Yeah, there is guvcview, but in a lot of systems, cheese is installed by default, and I'd figure it would be useful to know this way of specifying the camera.

Thanks.

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  • Did you try the device ID instead of a name? lsusb and get the ID, for example - 046d:082c May 4, 2020 at 20:19
  • Providing device name does not work; i.e.: cheese --device=046d:082c; gives a segmentation fault.
    – asylumax
    May 5, 2020 at 14:13
  • Check out askubuntu.com/questions/1133058/…, now there is a way to do this with GUI (just like how old Cheese worked), and without dconf-editor. Sep 10, 2020 at 13:47

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