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I'm looking for something to the equivalent of licecap.

It's an animated gif screen capture tool. I use it mainly for capturing QA bug reports during development.

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Patoshi パトシ
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  • Please take a look at the software Byzanz. There is a tutorial here: https://www.maketecheasier.com/record-screen-as-animated-gif-ubuntu/ –  May 04 '16 at 16:08
  • Another option is SilentCast: https://github.com/colinkeenan/silentcast –  May 04 '16 at 16:09
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    Newest attempt is Peek for Linux >>> https://askubuntu.com/a/833995/11929 – Elijah Lynn Nov 15 '17 at 19:28

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Byzanz desktop recorder is available in the universe repository in Ubuntu 14.04 and later. Byzanz also allows recording of audio, when the output format supports it.

sudo apt install byzanz

Tto record from screen run the byzanz-record command in the terminal with the following syntax:

byzanz-record -d DURATION --delay=DELAY -x X-COORDINATE -y Y-COORDINATE -w WIDTH -h HEIGHT YOUR-FILENAME

Example:

byzanz-record -d 20 --delay=6 -x 0 -y 0 -w 1200 -h 800 desktop-animation.gif

will record 20 seconds from a rectangular screen area starting at top left 0,0 with width 1200 and height 800 into a file named animation.gif with an initial delay of 6 seconds.

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  • how wold i even find the proper coordinates? isn't there a gui? – Patoshi パトシ May 04 '16 at 16:26
  • yes there is one. you have to install this script. check out this git repo [byzanz_window](https://gist.github.com/noamraph/8348560). – Jonayad Rahman May 04 '16 at 16:37
  • there isn't just a one click installer? thx – Patoshi パトシ May 04 '16 at 17:03
  • if you want a really simple one then please use [silentcast](https://github.com/colinkeenan/silentcast) it's a good program with a gui. you can install silentcast by copy and pasting this command `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sethj/silentcast && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install silentcast` – Jonayad Rahman May 04 '16 at 17:27