How to record GIF on Ubuntu Linux

This is a quick tutorial on how we can record the animated GIF on a Linux Ubuntu machine.

 For this, there is a software called Peek, a simple screen recorder with an easy to use interface

Peek is very easy to create short screencasts of specific screen areas. We can simply place the Peek window over the area where we want to record and start recording.

Although it is optimized for recording and generating animated GIFs, we can also record WebM and MP4 videos too.

Let's look at how we can install it. For this open your terminal and type the following command

For Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peek-developers/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install peek

Here, we are adding PPA repositories required, while doing so use enter key to allow. Now, after running the above command you can simply open the peek recorder and start recording the GIFs animation.

The sample recording screen looks as below:

For Debian:

sudo apt install peek

For ElementaryOS:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peek-developers/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install peek

For Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S peek