PEEK(1)

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version 1.5.1+git20230114 · 8 versions
, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

✨ PEEK(1) — User commands ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair 💖 you're about to meet peek, and honestly? she's that girl. this is the manual page for the peek command, living in the User commands section, and by the end of this you're gonna be making tiny screencasts like it's nothing. periodt.

🌸 NAME 🌸

peek — a simple screen recorder with an easy to use interface 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

peek [OPTION...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the vibe: peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. like, actually easy. not "read three blog posts and cry" easy. easy easy.

She was built for one very specific use case — recording screen areas — for stuff like showing off UI features of your own apps, or showing a bug in bug reports. no cap, that's literally the assignment. 🫶

With Peek you simply place the Peek window over the area you want to record and press "Record". that's it. that's the whole ritual. 💖

Peek is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but you can also directly record to WebM or MP4 if you prefer. choose your fighter. ✨

Now, important reality check: Peek is not a general purpose screencast app with extended features. she's not trying to be everything to everyone, and that's the point. she focuses on the single task of creating small, silent screencasts of an area of the screen for creating GIF animations or silent WebM or MP4 videos. small. silent. focused. main character energy. 👑

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -h, --help — Show help options. your classic "help me pls" button 💜
  • --help-all — Show all help options. the everything version, for when you want the whole buffet 🌈
  • --help-gapplication — Show GApplication options. application-level goodies, right this way 🎀
  • --help-gtk — Show GTK+ Options. GTK+ stuff, revealed 💅

🌟 Application Options: 🌟

  • -v, --version — Show the version of the program and exit. quick lil "who are you" check 🦋
  • -b, --backend=BACKEND — Select the recording backend (gnome-shell, ffmpeg). two icons, pick your fave 💖
  • -s, --start — Start recording in all running Peek instances. all of them. every single one. synchronized slay ✨
  • -p, --stop — Stop recording in all running Peek instances. ok we're done here, wrap it up 🎬
  • -t, --toggle — Toggle recording in all running Peek instances. start if stopped, stop if started, chaos if you're feeling it 🙈
  • --no-headerbar — Start Peek without the header bar. minimalist era 🎀
  • --display=DISPLAY — X display to use. point her at the right screen, bestie 🖥️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Philipp Wolfer <ph.wolfer@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Paulo Roberto Alves de Oliveira (aka kretcheu) <kretcheu@gmail.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

lowkey the whole thing is: put the window over the area, hit Record, get a GIF. highkey iconic. 💜

and that's a wrap, bestie — this was peek version 1.5.1, dated 01 April 2024. go make something cute, and remember: small, silent, focused. mwah 💅🎀✨

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