Hi, I hope some of you might be using Peek to record screen as GIF.

https://github.com/phw/peek

Sadly I am not able to find a safe and reliable AppImage for the same to use in 20.04. The GitHub pages say that it is under " Release Page " but I do not see it there. I wonder if anyone here knows about a reliable source for the same. Thanks.

Peek release 1.3.1 has an appimage for download.

Thanks. I use 20.04. Let us hope the 19 version will work on it.

Interesting The version 1.3.1 appimage looks like it was made with a 'buntu 18.04 base. Appimages are not completely independent of the operating system and that appimage throws up libpango errors.

Not insurmountable, you can steal the libpango files from 'buntu 18.04, unpack the appimage and load the files. It does mean you have to run the unpacked peek program.

FWIW, I am setting up a kubuntu 20.04 laptop, so this is a screen capture of peek running and capturing for a gif. Sort of a 'droste'

Snags: Once capturing I could not move the capture window. Moving it stopped the capture.

This demo 3' 30'' https://youtu.be/xFzhdLoCy48 no audio. Makes a peek capture, plays back with gwenview (the default kubuntu viewer) then opens in Gimp 2.10.22 (appimage)

IMHO: Much better to capture as video with ffmpeg.

Thanks @rich2005

Sadly, I am sure what you described. Is it Peek 1.3.1 you were using ? I can see in the video that everything is working fine for you in Kubuntu 20.04.

Are you suggesting building an AppImage for 20.04 based on 1.3.1 AppImage ? Appreciate your help.

No. The latest is 1.5.1 and from the change log looks much improved from the older version. If you need an appimage then maybe wait and see if one comes along. I just hacked the 1.3.1 version to see if it works in 'buntu 20.04.

It is not a big program, why not just install it ? A tip: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas gets a search for 'buntu ppa's

A few entries for peek, there is a daily build or this stable package: https://launchpad.net/~peek-developers/ ... /+packages

...or maybe try the flatpak.

Thanks @rich2005

I understand now. Sadly Peek is breaking Ubuntu's Software Updater. I had to use backups twice so that I can get updates again. I can install Peek now, but that will the end of updates for my 20.04. So I had no choice but to search for an AppImage.

Use the flatpak version, that should not interfere with anything.

https://github.com/phw/peek#flatpak

Often you can just make a symlink -
sudo ln -s libpango.so.1 libpango.so.3

Ubuntu has an excellent screen recorder with good video resolution. I don't need Peek.

I'm looking at appimages for mathmap. One technique is the 'before and after snapshot' method that essentially reverse engineers an app by logging what it installed.
I remember about 10 or 15 years ago that method scared windows so much they bought the company and shut it down.

Robbing banks is now called 'demonetisation'

@Tas_mania

Hi, which screen recorder for Ubuntu are you implying ? I do not see anything that can capture screen to GIF. It would be great to know if one exists. Thanks.

@rich2005, I will try Flatpak. Thanks

Simplescreenrecorder.
The record as gif does not work so record as video and convert to gif.

That's what I use as well. If I want to make a gif, I just convert the video into gif using ffmpeg. You can also upload video to imgur and it will convert for you.

I got so used to Peek, I installed it through PPA, which obviously broke the update list. But these commands came to rescue

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

and

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archive/partial/*