{"id":9371,"date":"2019-09-24T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2019-09-24T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:20:24","slug":"animated-gif-recorder-peek-140-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/animated-gif-recorder-peek-140-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated GIF Recorder &#8216;Peek&#8217; 1.4.0 Released (How to Install)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-newicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peek screen recorder 1.4.0 was released today with stability fixes and some use interface improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/phw\/peek\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peek<\/a> is a handy desktop screen recorder with an easy to use interface. It supports recording to <b>GIF<\/b>, <b>APNG<\/b>, <b>Webm<\/b>, and <b>MP4<\/b>, and so far works on <b>X11<\/b> or inside a GNOME Shell Wayland session using XWayland. <\/p>\n<p>Peek 1.4.0 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Move app menu into application window<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>New app icon<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Set window type hint to UTILITY<\/li>\n<li>Show shortcut hint in main window<\/li>\n<li>Added Recorder, Video and AudioVideo to desktop files categories<\/li>\n<li>Build fixes and updated translations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-recorder-600x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-recorder-600x385.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-recorder-450x289.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-recorder-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-recorder.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Peek 1.4.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Note the Peek PPA will not update for Ubuntu 16.04 any more, since the 1.4.0 release required GTK >=3.20.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from application menu. When it opens, run commands to add the Peek PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peek-developers\/stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompt and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-ppa-bionic-600x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"122\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-ppa-bionic-600x122.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-ppa-bionic-450x91.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/peek-ppa-bionic.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Then check updates and install peek via 2 commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install peek<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package for your system from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~peek-developers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\/+packages\" target=\"_blank\">PPA packages page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the screen recorder, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove peek<\/pre>\n<p>You can also remove the PPA repository by going to <i>Application menu -> Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/i> tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peek screen recorder 1.4.0 was released today with stability fixes and some use interface improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and derivatives. Peek is a handy desktop screen recorder with an easy to use interface. It supports recording to GIF, APNG, Webm, and MP4, and so far works on X11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1460,637],"class_list":["post-9371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-peek","tag-record-animated-gif"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}