Desktop Session Recorders [Was: Re: Suggestions for Edubuntu Syllabus?]

[Herman Bos]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On March 1, agente87 at gmail.com said:
>
>  > I think that the best desktop catcher, i have proved is wink. It's
>  > useful and easy to create demostrations films.
>
> wink can be found here:
>
>   http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that wink cannot be freely redistributed
> (and it's not clear to me if the source code is available), which
> makes it difficult to integrate it into ubuntu directly.
>
> It looks like a nice tool, though!  It would be even nicer if it was
> truly free.
>
> 	--dkg
>
>   
You can give Istanbul a try. Its available in the universe repository.

Description from the package:

 Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop.
 It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file.
 To start the recording, you click on its icon in the
 notification area. To stop you click its icon again.
 .
 It works on Gnome, KDE, XFCE and others.
 .
 Homepage: http://zaheer.merali.org/mediawiki/index.php/Istanbul