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Record Screen as Animated GIF in Ubuntu with Byzanz (from https://www.maketecheasier.com/record-screen-as-animated-gif-ubuntu/)
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#!/bin/bash | |
# AUTHOR: (c) Rob W 2012 | |
# modified by MHC (http://askubuntu.com/users/81372/mhc) | |
# and by Rodolfo Carvalho | |
# NAME: GIFRecord 0.1-fedora | |
# DESCRIPTION: A script to record GIF screencasts. | |
# LICENSE: GNU GPL v3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) | |
# DEPENDENCIES: byzanz,zenity,notify-send | |
set -e | |
# Time and date | |
TIME=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S") | |
# Delay before starting | |
DELAY=10 | |
# Standard screencast folder | |
FOLDER="$HOME/Pictures" | |
# Default recording duration | |
DEFDUR=10 | |
# Sound notification to let one know when recording is about to start (and ends) | |
beep() { | |
paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/message-new-instant.oga & | |
} | |
# Custom recording duration as set by user | |
USERDUR=$(zenity --entry --title "Recoding duration" --text "Please enter the screencast duration in seconds:" --width 200 --height 100 2>/dev/null) | |
# Duration and output file | |
if [ $USERDUR -gt 0 ]; then | |
D=$USERDUR | |
else | |
D=$DEFDUR | |
fi | |
# Window geometry | |
XWININFO=$(xwininfo) | |
read X < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left X/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") | |
read Y < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left Y/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") | |
read W < <(awk -F: '/Width/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") | |
read H < <(awk -F: '/Height/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") | |
# Notify the user of recording time and delay | |
notify-send "GIFRecorder" "Recording duration set to $D seconds. Recording will start in $DELAY seconds." | |
#Actual recording | |
sleep $DELAY | |
beep | |
byzanz-record -c --verbose --delay=0 --duration=$D --x=$X --y=$Y --width=$W --height=$H "$FOLDER/GIFrecord_$TIME.gif" | |
beep | |
# Notify the user of end of recording. | |
notify-send "GIFRecorder" "Screencast saved to $FOLDER/GIFrecord_$TIME.gif" |
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