Terminalizer records terminal sessions and turns them into animated GIF images or recordings that can be replayed and shared. Sessions are saved to editable recording files, making it possible to adjust the captured frames and timing before producing the finished animation.
Rather than simply capturing pixels from an existing terminal window, Terminalizer renders the stored terminal contents. This gives considerably more control over the appearance of the resulting animation, including fonts, colours, terminal dimensions and decorative frames.
Recordings can also be replayed directly in the terminal. A configuration file controls recording and rendering behaviour, allowing commonly used settings to be retained between sessions.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Record terminal sessions to editable recording files.
- Replay recordings directly in the terminal before rendering them.
- Render recordings as animated GIF images.
- Share recordings through a web player.
- Generate a web player from an existing recording.
- Edit individual frames and adjust delays before rendering.
- Skip frames at configurable intervals to reduce the number of rendered frames.
- Configure the shell or other command that should be recorded.
- Set the working directory and additional environment variables for a recording.
- Automatically use the current terminal dimensions or specify rows and columns explicitly.
- Control GIF quality, repetition and maximum idle time between frames.
- Configure cursor style, font family, font size, line height and letter spacing.
- Customise terminal colours and themes.
- Add a watermark image with CSS styling.
- Includes several terminal window-frame styles with further CSS customisation.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS and Windows.
Website: github.com/faressoft/terminalizer
Support:
Developer: Mohammad Anas Fares and contributors
License: MIT License
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