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Record your terminal and generate animated gif images or share a web player link www.terminalizer.com

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Table of Contents

Features

What's Next

Installation

You need to install Node.js first, then install the tool globally using this command:

yarn global add terminalizer
<p align="center"><img src="/img/install.gif?raw=true"/></p>

Still facing an issue? Check the Issues section or open a new issue.

The installation should be very smooth with Node.js v4-v16. For newer versions, if the installation is failed, you may need to install the development tools to build the C++ add-ons. Check node-gyp.

Getting Started

Start recording your terminal using the record command.

terminalizer record demo

A file called demo.yml will be created in the current directory. You can open it using any editor to edit the configurations and the recorded frames. You can replay your recording using the play command.

terminalizer play demo

Now let's render our recording as an animated gif.

terminalizer render demo

Compression

GIF compression is not implemented yet. For now we recommend https://gifcompressor.com.

Usage

You can use the --help option to get more details about the commands and their options

terminalizer <command> [options]

Init

Create a global config directory

terminalizer init

Config

Generate a config file in the current directory

terminalizer config

Record

Record your terminal and create a recording file

terminalizer record <recordingFile>

Options

-c, --config        Overwrite the default configurations                                  [string]
-d, --command       The command to be executed                            [string] [default: null]
-k, --skip-sharing  Skip sharing and showing the sharing prompt message [boolean] [default: false]

Examples

terminalizer record foo                      Start recording and create a recording file called foo.yml
terminalizer record foo --config config.yml  Start recording with your own configurations

Play

Play a recording file on your terminal

terminalizer play <recordingFile>

Options

-r, --real-timing   Use the actual delays between frames as recorded        [boolean] [default: false]
-s, --speed-factor  Speed factor, multiply the frames delays by this factor [number] [default: 1]

Render

Render a recording file as an animated gif image

terminalizer render <recordingFile>

Options

-o, --output   A name for the output file                                      [string]
-q, --quality  The quality of the rendered image (1 - 100)                     [number]
-s, --step     To reduce the number of rendered frames (step > 1) [number] [default: 1]

Share

Upload a recording file and get a link for an online player

terminalizer share <recordingFile>

Generate

Generate a web player for a recording file

terminalizer generate <recordingFile>

Configurations

The default config.yml file is stored under the root directory of the project. Execute the below command to copy it to your current directory.

Use any editor to edit the copied config.yml, then use the -c option to override the default one.

terminalizer config

RECOMMENDED, use the init command to create a global config file to be used instead of the default one.

terminalizer init

For Linux and MacOS, the created directory is located under the home directory ~/config/terminalizer. For Windows, it is located under the AppData.

Recording

Delays

GIF

Terminal

Theme

You can set the colors of your terminal using one of the CSS formats:

You can use the value transparent too.

The default colors that are assigned to the terminal colors are:

Watermark

You can add a watermark logo to your generated GIF images.

<p align="center"><img src="/img/watermark.gif?raw=true"/></p>
watermark:
  imagePath: AbsolutePathOrURL
  style:
    position: absolute
    right: 15px
    bottom: 15px
    width: 100px
    opacity: 0.9

Frame Box

Terminalizer comes with predefined frames that you can use to make your GIF images look cool.

Null Frame

No frame, just your recording.

<p align="center"><img src="/img/frames/null.gif?raw=true"/></p>

Don't forget to add a backgroundColor under style.

frameBox:
  type: null
  title: null
  style:
    backgroundColor: black

Window Frame

<p align="center"><img src="/img/frames/window.gif?raw=true"/></p>
frameBox:
  type: window
  title: Terminalizer
  style: []

Floating Frame

<p align="center"><img src="/img/frames/floating.gif?raw=true"/></p>
frameBox:
  type: floating
  title: Terminalizer
  style: []

Solid Frame

<p align="center"><img src="/img/frames/solid.gif?raw=true"/></p>
frameBox:
  type: solid
  title: Terminalizer
  style: []

Solid Frame Without Title

<p align="center"><img src="/img/frames/solid_without_title.gif?raw=true"/></p>
frameBox:
  type: solid
  title: null
  style: []

Styling Hint

You can disable the default shadows and margins.

<p align="center"><img src="/img/frames/solid_without_title_without_shadows.gif?raw=true"/></p>
frameBox:
  type: solid
  title: null
  style:
    boxShadow: none
    margin: 0px

FAQ

How to support ZSH

The default command that gets recorded for Linux is bash -l. You need to change the default command to zsh.

terminalizer config
command: zsh
fontFamily: "Meslo for Powerline, Meslo LG M for Powerline"
terminalizer record demo -c config.yml

Issues

error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution:

sudo yum install libXScrnSaver

error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution:

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib'

Solution:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/node_modules && sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) /usr/local/lib/node_modules

# then use the install command in the "Installation" section above
yarn global add terminalizer

License

This project is under the MIT license.