–duration: This argument specifies the length (duration) of the GIF.byzanz-record – Here, we are calling the Byanz tool to start recording.Let’s look at all the arguments used in the command above. Recall that in Linux, no news is good news, meaning that a successful command does not display any message on the terminal. The command is pretty straightforward: byzanz-record -duration=10 -x=0 -y=0 -width=800 -height=800 /home/johndoe/Desktop/example.gif Now that byzanz has been successfully installed, we can create our first GIF. Remember that we are running these commands as the superuser or the root.
GIMP VIDEO TO GIF INSTALL
To get started, we install the Byzanz tool by running the following command sudo apt-get install byzanz It doesn’t offer any graphical utility to specify an exact area on your screen. One of the significant drawbacks with Byzanz is that you need to specify everything (including the areas to record) on the Terminal. It is part of the GNOME project, and it’s available in the Ubuntu repositories. Let’s fire up our terminal and run the following command in our terminal: sudo apt-get updateīyzanz is a command-line utility that you can use to create GIFs from your Terminal. Before installing any programs or tools on any Linux distribution, it’s our tradition to update our system first. Surprisingly enough, you can also use LibreOffice in Ubuntu to make GIFs. We will give you a step-by-step guide on using all the tools listed above.
You can use various tools to create animated GIFs on Linux.
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