enGIF-your-screen

Capture what you're doing on your screen in a .gif the easy way.

Prerequisites

• python3
• python3-gobject
• wand >= 0.3.0 (and MagickWand, obviously)
• libindicator (optionnal, for AppIndicator support only)

How to install?

Make sure you are using python3 and install the package with setuptools, easy_install or whatever you're used to.

How to configure?

enGIF-your-screen is reading its configuration from your $(HOME)/.config/enGIF/enGIF.ini ini file (it will be created if it does not exist).
Each line is a key = value option, everything must be configured in the enGIF section.

Supported options:

• scale : percentage to which the output file will be scaled (default: 100)

Example:

[enGIF]
scale = 50

How to use?

• Click the big button in your traybar: the record begins
• Re-click the big button: the record ends
• Select where you want your .gif saved
• You're done

How it works?

enGIF-your-screen is just taking a bunch of screenshots with xwd and creates a .gif using ImageMagick.

Pro tips

• If you've recorded your screen in full size, the output file can weight several MB. You can resize your .gif using ImageMagick CLI :

$> convert inputFile.gif -coalesce -repage 0x0 -resize 800x600 +repage outputFile.gif

$> convert inputFile.gif -coalesce -repage 0x0 -resize 50% +repage outputFile.gif

• Another good way to reduce the resulting .gif size is to posterize them. Posterization reduces the number of color levels per channel (and though is a destructive optimization process). Note that values between 8 and 16 are generally a good compromise between quality and size.

$> convert inputFile.gif -coalesce -repage 0x0 -posterize 8 +repage outputFile.gif

Icons

Icons are borrowed from Sekyumu's Developpers Icons.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.