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Kgif – A Simple Shell Script to Create a Gif File from Active Window
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[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.
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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.
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Originally it was created for capturing tty output and creating preview for github projects.
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Make sure you have installed scrot and ImageMagick packages before running Kgif.
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Suggested Read : [Peek – Create a Animated GIF Recorder in Linux][3]
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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.
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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.
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#### Install Dependencies
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Kgif required scrot and ImageMagick to work.
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For Debian based Systems
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```
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$ sudo apt-get install scrot imagemagick
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```
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For RHEL/CentOS based Systems
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```
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$ sudo yum install scrot ImageMagick
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```
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For Fedora Systems
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```
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$ sudo dnf install scrot ImageMagick
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```
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For openSUSE Systems
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```
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$ sudo zypper install scrot ImageMagick
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```
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For Arch Linux based Systems
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```
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$ sudo pacman -S scrot ImageMagick
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```
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#### Install Kgif & Usage
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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.
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```
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$ git clone https://github.com/luminousmen/Kgif
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$ cd Kgif
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$ ./kgif.sh
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Setting delay to 1 sec
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Capturing...
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^C
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Stop capturing
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Converting to gif...
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Cleaning...
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Done!
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Check whether dependencies are presents in system.
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```
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$ ./kgif.sh --check
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OK: found scrot
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OK: found imagemagick
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```
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Set delay in seconds with script to start capturing, after N seconds.
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```
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$ ./kgif.sh --delay=5
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Setting delay to 5 sec
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Capturing...
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^C
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Stop capturing
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Converting to gif...
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Cleaning...
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Done!
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```
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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.
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```
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$ ./kgif.sh --delay=5 --filename=2g-test.gif
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Setting delay to 5 sec
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Capturing...
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^C
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Stop capturing
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Converting to gif...
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Cleaning...
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Done!
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```
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Set noclean with script to keep the source png screen shots.
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```
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$ ./kgif.sh --delay=5 --noclean
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```
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To know more all the options.
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```
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$ ./kgif.sh --help
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usage: ./kgif.sh [--delay] [--filename ] [--gifdelay] [--noclean] [--check] [-h]
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-h, --help Show this help, exit
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--check Check if all dependencies are installed, exit
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--delay= Set delay in seconds to specify how long script will wait until start capturing.
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--gifdelay= Set delay in seconds to specify how fast images appears in gif.
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--filename= Set file name for output gif.
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--noclean Set if you don't want to delete source *.png screenshots.
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```
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Default capturing output.
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][4]
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I felt, the default capturing is very fast, then i made few changes and got the proper output.
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via: http://www.2daygeek.com/kgif-create-animated-gif-file-active-window-screen-recorder-capture-arch-linux-mint-fedora-ubuntu-debian-opensuse-centos/
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作者：[MAGESH MARUTHAMUTHU][a]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]:http://www.2daygeek.com/author/magesh/
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[1]:http://www.2daygeek.com/author/magesh/
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[2]:https://github.com/luminousmen/Kgif
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[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/
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[4]:http://www.2daygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kgif-test.gif
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[5]:http://www.2daygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kgif-test-delay-modified.gif
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