#!/bin/bash - #!/bin/bash # Delay before starting DELAY=10 # Sound notification to let one know when recording is about to start (and ends) beep() { paplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Im-Irc-Event.ogg & } # Duration and output file if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then D="--duration=$@" else echo Default recording duration 10s to /tmp/recorded.gif D="--duration=10 /tmp/recorded.gif" fi # xrectsel from https://github.com/lolilolicon/xrectsel ARGUMENTS=$(xrectsel "--x=%x --y=%y --width=%w --height=%h") || exit -1 echo Delaying $DELAY seconds. After that, byzanz will start for (( i=$DELAY; i>0; --i )) ; do echo $i sleep 1 done beep byzanz-record --verbose --delay=0 ${ARGUMENTS} $D beep