ttygif

Following up on this, I was inspired to try again. I decided to give APNG tools a shot, as it seems that APNG support is pretty good these days[1]. It was straightforward to build apngasm[2] and ttygif[3] from their GitHub sources on Ubuntu. I modified ttygif to generate a command for apngasm rather than for convert, and found that it could easily handle my data. Unfortunately, apngasm does not seem to handle gamma correctly, resulting in more muted colours in the output APNG than in the input PNGs. If I can find the time, I'll fix that up and open-source the various tweaks I made. My current results are[4][5], though I may update those images as I improve them. On a related note, it seems that it's no longer possible to remove the window decorations from gnome-terminal on Ubuntu 19.10, which is unfortunate for ttygif captures. I switched

I've used ttyrecord[0] along with ttygif[1] a while ago to create this animated gif: https://raw.github.com/laurent22/massren/animation/animation... As far as I remember it was easy to use and the result was pretty good. Back then I've also tested Asciinema but gave up for the same reasons. [0] http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/ [1] https://github.com/icholy/ttygif

There is a derivative of script called ttyrec. You can use that in conjunction with ttygif (https://github.com/icholy/ttygif) to make an animated gif out of the captured script.

Thsi works pretty well: https://github.com/icholy/ttygif Convert tty sessions to animated GIFs.