byzanz-record (1) Linux Manual Page

byzanz-record – record your desktop session to an animated GIF

Synopsis

byzanz-record [options] filename.gif

Description

Byzanz records your desktop session to an animated GIF. You can record your entire screen, a single window, or an arbitrary region. byzanz-record allows you to make recordings from the command line. Graphical users may want to use the panel applet instead.

Options

Application Options:

-d, –duration=SECS

Duration of animation (default: 10 seconds)

–delay=SECS

Delay before start (default: 1 second)

-l, –loop

Let the animation loop

-c, –cursor

Record mouse cursor

-x, –x=PIXEL

X coordinate of rectangle to record

-y, –y=PIXEL

Y coordinate of rectangle to record

-w, –width=PIXEL

Width of recording rectangle

-h, –height=PIXEL

Height of recording rectangle

-v, –verbose

Be verbose

–display=DISPLAY

X display to use

Help Options:

-?, –help

Show help options

–help-gtk

Show GTK+ Options

–help-all

Show all help options

Author

byzanz was written by Benjamin Otte <otte [at] gnome.org>.

This manual page was written by Josh Triplett <josh [at] freedesktop.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).