Gyazo GIF for Linux

This repository contains a simple tool that uses Byzanz (a GIF recording tool) and Gyazo (an online image hosting service).

Usage

• Install required packages: apt install byzanz libgtk-3-dev gyazo-for-linux
• Clone this repository
• Compile the .c file using make
• Run gyazo-gif
• Select a rectangle with the mouse (pressing Escape will cancel selection)
• By default, a GIF of 10 seconds will be recorded and uploaded to Gyazo

Configuration

Any arguments that are passed to gyazo-gif are directly passed to byzanz-record. Please refer to man byzanz-record for details. Note that the x, y, w and h arguments will already be set.

Sources

• The file byzanz-get-rect.c was copied and altered from the gnome-screenshot package (version 3.30).