Record Desktop

:movie_camera: Effortless GIFs and screenshots on Linux, built with Electron.

Install / Use

npx skills add ewnd9/record-desktop

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

About this skill

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Record gifs and take screenshots on linux, built with electron.

Demonstration

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 in unity and awesome-wm environments.

Recording a gif
1. Start recording an area or an active window by a hotkey.
2. Stop by a hotkey, get a generated gif file opened via xdg-open (commonly in a image viewer).
3. Drag & drop it into an input in a browser (currently there is a problem with copy/paste to/from the clipboard, follow issue#8 for details).
Taking a screenshot
1. Take a screenshot of an area or an active window by a hotkey (with mac os like shadow - example).
2. Get a screenshot copied in the clipboard.
3. Paste it into into an input in a browser.
Preview gallery
Upload to imgur

All files are persisted in customizable location.

All hotkeys are customizable in settings.

First install the dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install slop imagemagick byzanz

If you don't have apt-get or have any troubles follow readmes of projects

Then record-desktop itself by either Debian package or npm

Download the latest deb release from https://github.com/ewnd9/record-desktop/releases

Use dpkg

$ sudo dpkg -i record-desktop_v*_amd64.deb

$ npm install record-desktop --global

$ record-desktop

Just put it to autostart

$ npm run build:watch
$ npm start

$ npm run build:electron-deb && sudo dpkg -i dist-pkg/installers/*.deb

v0.5.0
- make notifications optional
v0.4.0
- quick actions against latest files in the tray menu
- auto refresh the gallery on new files creation
- display size and resolutions of files in the gallery
v0.3.0
- the mac os like shadow effect for screenshots