Monitoring your camera in taskbar / panel

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

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 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)

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