Recording the screen 

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:56:54 +0900
> I am preparing a presentation and I'd love to be able to make a movie
> out of a session at the computer, i.e. I'd like to capture the screen
> repetitively and then be able to play it back as a movie.

In woody:

apt-cache search capture screen
cgoban - Complete Go board
scrot - command line screen capture utility
apt-cache show scrot
[...]
Description: command line screen capture utility
scrot (SCReen shOT) is a simple commandline screen capture
utility that uses imlib2 to grab and save images. Multiple
image formats are supported through imlib2's dynamic saver
 modules.

maybe you could write a script to execute scrot at certain intervals, and then build a movie with some other utility (gimp?, some command line utility I don't remember now?). I haven't used scrot, so I don't know how it works.

Victor

Recording the screen 

you can also use "import" to capture either the screen or a single widow. gimp has screen cap facilities too

Blake Swadling

Recording the screen 

> Is there a ready solution for me?

Have a look at xvidcap, its what I use and its excellent! Debs for stable and testing/sid are available on this site http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

Check out the instructional movies on the site to see how it works.

Roy Pluschke