Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>> I'm looking for a way to capture all user activity ( keyboard/mouse )
>> in X to a animated GIF.

> I have used pkgsrc/x11/xvidcap and pkgsrc/x11/xvidcap-gtk2 to create 
> screen capture videos. From the description:

>   xvidcap is a tool (like Lotus ScreenCam and Camtasia) that captures
>   movement on a selected area of an X11 screen to files. Frame output
>   formats include: XWD, PPM, PNG, MNG, JPEG and MPEG.

It's easy to generate gif from a series of png with gimp.

Karsten Kruse

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