Byzanz is an especially useful small program. With Byzanz, you can record your current Linux desktop to an animated GIF file. Byzanz is implemented as a GNOME applet. It also contains a command line interface.
Install Byzanz
If you are an Ubuntu user, that’s simple. Run this command in your terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install byzanz
Of course, if you are using other Linux distributions, you can install Byzanz from source. After download source package of Byzanz from here, run the following commands:
$ tar zxvf byzanz-0.1.1.tar.gz
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Now right click on GNOME panel, select Add to Panel. Then select Desktop Recorder item to add to the panel.
Use Byzanz
It’s very easy. Here’s a demo.
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1 Dave // Sep 27, 2007 at 1:05 am
I installed using apt-get and it works like a charm. Only thing I had to do was change my color depth to 24 bit. If you try to use 16 bit color depth it will print out error message saying that it will only work with 24 or 32 bit settings. The file sizes it puts out are reasonable. I did a one minute 1024×768x24 recording and it made a 5 megabyte file. Thanks for the tip.
2 Linux Zone : Blog sobre Linux, noticias, manuales, foros, drivers » Grabar vuestro escritorio // Dec 28, 2007 at 9:04 am
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