What does HackerNews think of peek?

Have you tried Peek?

https://github.com/phw/peek

I use https://github.com/phw/peek on i3wm on Manjaro without any problems. For full screen recording, OBS feels the like the best option.

I used https://github.com/phw/peek but I plan on trying asciinema / terminalizer soon.

I was able to record `present` with asciinema, just need to see how nicely it renders into a GIF!

Peek can film portion of the screen but probably can't do annotations https://github.com/phw/peek

On Linux there is peek for quick screen to gif/mp4 recordings: https://github.com/phw/peek

On Linux systems you might want to have a look at Peek [1]. It can even make (optional) use of gifski [2], a library that is great at reaching top optimization of the limited GIF color palette.

[1]: https://github.com/phw/peek

[2]: https://gif.ski/

Ignoring the terminal capture for a moment and focussing on the gif part: how does it compare to LICEcap? I haven't used it in a while but development seems to have resumed[0].

On Linux, there is also peek[1], and on Windows, there is ScreenToGif[2]. Both are open source.

Another option is to use screencasting software like OBS Studio[3] (and for Linux, I highly recommend SimpleScreenRecorder[4]) to get a high-quality video capture, then throwing it through gifski[5] to get really high quality GIFs.

Especially if you plan on uploading to a gif-site you might as well just capture video and upload that - they tend to do gif-conversion themselves these days.

[0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

[1] https://github.com/phw/peek

[2] http://www.screentogif.com/

[3] https://obsproject.com/

[4] http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/

[5] https://gif.ski/

I do the same and use LICEcap: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

Some teammates use https://github.com/phw/peek.