A simple tool that allows you to record short animated GIF images from your screen.

Currently only Linux with X11 is supported. Other Unix like systems using X11 should work as well. It is planned to also support Wayland and maybe other operating systems in the future.

• GTK+ >= 3.14
• GLib >= 2.38
• FFmpeg
• ImageMagick
• Window manager with compositing enabled

• Vala compiler
• CMake >= 2.8.8
• Gettext (>= 0.19 for localized .desktop entry)

For Arch Linux there is a PKGBUILD available in the AUR.

A x86_64 DEB package is provided for download for the latest release.

In theory this package should also work on Debian. In practice you will miss the ffmpeg package. libav is currently not directly usable as a replacement, but I am working on it ;)

On Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial:

$ wget https://github.com/phw/peek/releases/download/v0.7.2/peek-0.7.2-Linux.deb
$ sudo apt install libsdl1.2debian ffmpeg libavdevice-ffmpeg56
$ sudo dpkg -i peek-0.7.2-Linux.deb
$ peek

You can build and install Peek using CMake:

cmake . && make
make install

You can help translate Peek into your language. Peek is using Weblate for translation management.

Go to the Peek localization project to start translating.

Peek Copyright (c) 2015-2016 by Philipp Wolfer [email protected]

Peek is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Peek is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Peek. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.