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How do you capture terminal to gifs?

• phist_mcgee 6y ago
  https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer is my go to.
• thunderbong 6y ago
  ScreenToGif? https://www.screentogif.com https://www.screentogif.com
• jpm48 6y ago
  I use https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/ for terminal capture. Works really well and can embed into slides. Here is an example from one of my lab sessions https://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/msc/ase/labs/lab1/lab1/ https://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/msc/ase/labs/lab1...
• nickjj 6y ago
  I went with a manual approach. It was more than capturing text input in a shell. I was showing things like Vim and tmux workflows, so it involved recording my entire terminal at the application level. What I ended up doing was taking individual screenshots of each frame I wanted in the animation. Most of them were only ~5 frames long. Then if needed, I enhanced each screenshot by adding text labels. Like when I demo'd Vim splits I wanted to put a "1", "2", etc. on each split to make it easier to see what's going on. Then I took all of those individual screenshots and fed them into https://ezgif.com/maker https://ezgif.com/maker which is an online tool that converts screenshots into an animated gif where I was able to configure how long each frame should stay visible before transitioning to the next one. It sounds like a lot of work but it wasn't too bad considering I needed to sometimes add graphics to each frame and control the length of each frame. Once you get the work flow down it was pretty fast.