From 8f9265a2aa45e6c8e424e0803fcc8b9a0683e121 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ezio Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:14:38 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?20170318-8=20=E9=80=89=E9=A2=98?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- ...t to Create a Gif File from Active Window.md | 153 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 153 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sources/tech/20170317 Kgif – A Simple Shell Script to Create a Gif File from Active Window.md diff --git a/sources/tech/20170317 Kgif – A Simple Shell Script to Create a Gif File from Active Window.md b/sources/tech/20170317 Kgif – A Simple Shell Script to Create a Gif File from Active Window.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0a89669a5e --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/tech/20170317 Kgif – A Simple Shell Script to Create a Gif File from Active Window.md @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +Kgif – A Simple Shell Script to Create a Gif File from Active Window +============================================================ + +[Kgif][2] is a simple shell script which create a Gif file from active window. I felt this app especially designed to capture the terminal activity. I personally used, very often for that purpose. + +It captures activity as a series of PNG images, then combines all together to create a animated GIF. The script taking a screenshot of the active window at 0.5s intervals. If you feel, its not matching your requirement, straight away you can modify the script as per your need. + +Originally it was created for capturing tty output and creating preview for github projects. + +Make sure you have installed scrot and ImageMagick packages before running Kgif. + +Suggested Read : [Peek – Create a Animated GIF Recorder in Linux][3] + +What’s ImageMagick ImageMagick is a command line tool which used for image conversion and editing. It support all kind of image formats (over 200) such as PNG, JPEG, JPEG-2000, GIF, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. + +What’s Scrot Scrot stand for SCReenshOT is an open source, command line tool to capture a screen shots of your Desktop, Terminal or a Specific Window. + +#### Install Dependencies + +Kgif required scrot and ImageMagick to work. + +For Debian based Systems + +``` +$ sudo apt-get install scrot imagemagick +``` + +For RHEL/CentOS based Systems + +``` +$ sudo yum install scrot ImageMagick +``` + +For Fedora Systems + +``` +$ sudo dnf install scrot ImageMagick +``` + +For openSUSE Systems + +``` +$ sudo zypper install scrot ImageMagick +``` + +For Arch Linux based Systems + +``` +$ sudo pacman -S scrot ImageMagick +``` + +#### Install Kgif & Usage + +Installation of Kgif not a big deal because no installation required. Just clone the source file from developer github page wherever you want and run the `kgif.sh` file to capture the active window. By default, it’s sets delay to 1 sec, you can modify this by including `--delay` option with kgif. Finally press `Ctrl+c` to stop capturing. + +``` +$ git clone https://github.com/luminousmen/Kgif +$ cd Kgif +$ ./kgif.sh +Setting delay to 1 sec + +Capturing... +^C +Stop capturing +Converting to gif... +Cleaning... +Done! +``` + +Check whether dependencies are presents in system. + +``` +$ ./kgif.sh --check +OK: found scrot +OK: found imagemagick +``` + +Set delay in seconds with script to start capturing, after N seconds. + +``` +$ ./kgif.sh --delay=5 + +Setting delay to 5 sec + +Capturing... +^C +Stop capturing +Converting to gif... +Cleaning... +Done! +``` + +It save the gif file name as a `terminal.gif` and overwrite every time whenever get a new file. So, i advise you to add `--filename`option to save the file in a different name. + +``` +$ ./kgif.sh --delay=5 --filename=2g-test.gif + +Setting delay to 5 sec + +Capturing... +^C +Stop capturing +Converting to gif... +Cleaning... +Done! +``` + +Set noclean with script to keep the source png screen shots. + +``` +$ ./kgif.sh --delay=5 --noclean +``` + +To know more all the options. + +``` +$ ./kgif.sh --help + +usage: ./kgif.sh [--delay] [--filename ] [--gifdelay] [--noclean] [--check] [-h] + -h, --help Show this help, exit + --check Check if all dependencies are installed, exit + --delay= Set delay in seconds to specify how long script will wait until start capturing. + --gifdelay= Set delay in seconds to specify how fast images appears in gif. + --filename= Set file name for output gif. + --noclean Set if you don't want to delete source *.png screenshots. +``` + +Default capturing output. +[ + ![](http://www.2daygeek.com/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif) +][4] + +I felt, the default capturing is very fast, then i made few changes and got the proper output. +[ + ![](http://www.2daygeek.com/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif) +][5] + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: http://www.2daygeek.com/kgif-create-animated-gif-file-active-window-screen-recorder-capture-arch-linux-mint-fedora-ubuntu-debian-opensuse-centos/ + +作者：[MAGESH MARUTHAMUTHU][a] +译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]:http://www.2daygeek.com/author/magesh/ +[1]:http://www.2daygeek.com/author/magesh/ +[2]:https://github.com/luminousmen/Kgif +[3]:http://www.2daygeek.com/kgif-create-animated-gif-file-active-window-screen-recorder-capture-arch-linux-mint-fedora-ubuntu-debian-opensuse-centos/www.2daygeek.com/peek-create-animated-gif-screen-recorder-capture-arch-linux-mint-fedora-ubuntu/ +[4]:http://www.2daygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kgif-test.gif +[5]:http://www.2daygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kgif-test-delay-modified.gif