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Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

26 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 4 stories, 22 comments · first 2016-10-19 · latest 2024-06-12

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  1. …use of Peek and it's great. Unfortunately it's abandoned so will likely stop working eventually. https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/1191
    comment by deadbunny · 2024-06-12 · in Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
  2. …You just resize Peek‘s transparent window over the part of the screen that you want and hit record https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by graynk · 2024-06-12 · in Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
  3. I have been usin Peek for this. https://github.com/phw/peek Not perfect, but works.
    comment by sl-1 · 2024-03-09 · in TimeLapze: Open-source screen recorder
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    The open source peek screen recorder is being deprecated
    story by skeptrune · 2024-01-19 · 0 comments
  5. …and it can export to gif, webv and mp4. However it's only compatible with X11 as far as i know. [0] https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by G4E · 2022-11-14 · in GIF Like a Pro
  6. …Linux and want to record gifs like this, Peek[0] is what you're looking for. It's a lifesaver! [0] https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by smoldesu · 2021-11-30 · in Every pricing page should have GIFs
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    Peek: Simple animated GIF screen recorder
    story by vanous · 2021-04-19 · 0 comments
  8. it doesn't appear to support wayland https://github.com/phw/peek#why-no-native-wayland-support
    comment by lttlrck · 2021-03-13 · in Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
  9. Have you tried Peek? https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by leetrout · 2021-03-13 · in Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
  10. I use https://github.com/phw/peek on i3wm on Manjaro without any problems. For full screen recording, OBS feels the like the best option.
    comment by lebaux · 2021-02-13 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool
  11. peek ( https://github.com/phw/peek ) is decent, only issue is that setting the size of the capture area is a bit fiddly
    comment by drocan · 2021-02-13 · in Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool
  12. …claiming that maintaining an AppImage is a PITA and pretty difficult / time consuming to get right: https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/502#issuecomment-58757433...
    comment by j1elo · 2021-01-14 · in Signal AppImage for Linux
  13. I used https://github.com/phw/peek but I plan on trying asciinema / terminalizer soon. I was able to record `present` with asciinema, just need to see how nicely it renders into a GIF!
    comment by vortex_ape · 2020-08-30 · in A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects
  14. Peek can film portion of the screen but probably can't do annotations https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by type0 · 2020-04-09 · in Zappy – Screen capture tool
  15. and for recording gif/videos https://github.com/phw/peek is pretty nice
    comment by brunoqc · 2020-04-08 · in Zappy – Screen capture tool
  16. https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by bepvte · 2020-04-08 · in Zappy – Screen capture tool
  17. This is excellent. Thanks, bookmarked! Handy to combine with peek ( https://github.com/phw/peek ) which does a good job of recording gifs.
    comment by VadimPR · 2020-03-27 · in Show HN: A frame by frame GIF editor with Photoshop vibes
  18. For a Linux alternative (which is not supported by LICEcap), I recommend Peek[1]. [1] https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by melicerte · 2020-03-26 · in LICEcap: Simple Animated Screen Captures
  19. On Linux there is peek for quick screen to gif/mp4 recordings: https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by cheshire_cat · 2020-03-02 · in Show HN: A front-end visual development tool for React applications
  20. …[2], a library that is great at reaching top optimization of the limited GIF color palette. [1]: https://github.com/phw/peek [2]: https://gif.ski/
    comment by j1elo · 2020-01-18 · in Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative
  21. …- they tend to do gif-conversion themselves these days. [0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ [1] https://github.com/phw/peek [2] http://www.screentogif.com/ [3] https://obsproject.com/ [4] http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/…
    comment by vanderZwan · 2018-02-19 · in Asciinema 2.0
  22. I do the same and use LICEcap: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ Some teammates use https://github.com/phw/peek .
    comment by modernerd · 2018-01-21 · in Ask HN: Remote workers, how do you show your work?
  23. …produces big GIFs. Linux users, it's available in peek, a very usable GNOME-ish screencasting tool. https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/212
    comment by ronjouch · 2017-11-18 · in Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant
  24. …Peek[2] [0] https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix [1] http://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop-web/ [2] https://github.com/phw/peek
    comment by Kostic · 2017-07-21 · in Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps
  25. ▲ 1
    Peek animated Gif recorder 0.8 released
    story by outsidecontext · 2016-10-25 · 0 comments
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    Peek – an animated GIF recorder for Linux
    story by lwhsiao · 2016-10-19 · 0 comments