Flameshot: Ability to create a .gif animation

[Netroxen]

This is very useful in my web development, especially when creating tickets for issues on the frontend, however sometimes I'd like to demonstrate a usability or animation issue, for this it would be epic if there was a .gif creator. I little record button after making my selection with a configurable framerate in the settings would do wonders!

[lidel]

@Netroxen for now try Peek (a standalone animated GIF recorder).
But I agree, would be super neat to have it all in one tool.

[Netroxen]

@lidel yup I've actually been using Peek for a while, but this tool is absolutely the best I've found for quickly annotating and taking screenshots, so a GIF recorder would elevate this to mind blown.

I'll keep using Peek for the moment though...

[Bios-Marcel]

tip for those using a tiling window manager: You can't use peek, since it doesn't seem to work well with a tiling window manager, instead you could use this:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

[ $# -lt 2 ] && \
  echo 'You have to pass a duration in seconds and a filename: "gif.sh 10 /tmp/record.gif"' && \
  exit 1

byzanz-record                                        \
  --cursor                                           \
  --verbose                                          \
  --delay=2                                          \
  --duration=${1}                                    \
  $(xrectsel "--x=%x --y=%y --width=%w --height=%h") \
  "${2}"

[bhayward93]

Much appreciated @Bios-Marcel , you've saved me quite the headache.

[NatoBoram]

@lidel Peek doesn't work at the moment for recording GIFs.

Another alternative is Kazam, but it doesn't support GIF. Another alternative is Green Recorder, but it has the same issue.

[MichaelTunnell]

I dont think flameshot intends to be a video recorder so it would be better to check out something else such as SimpleScreenRecorder.

SSR does support saving as a GIF but honestly, DONT do that. You should always record as a video, preferably MKV or MP4, and then convert that to a GIF once you have it perfect for the GIF. Recording straight to GIF will lose so much quality and be gigantic filesizes.

In fact, I would suggest abandoning GIFs all together for big captures as direct video play is now available on most browsers even most mobile browsers via HTML5 so you dont need the GIF format anymore.

Even sites like Imgur default to Videos instead of GIFs because of this reason.

[Fedelaus]

To follow up on @Bios-Marcel

I'm using i3 and Peek, it works fine! Not sure if it's a change with Peek or if Bios was using a different tiling wm.

It's a floating window so you'll obviously need to consider that when using it, and if you were smart about it you could probably nicely control the window size/position via i3 commands to emulate full-screen/full-window etc.