istanbul − a desktop session recorder
istanbul [options]
This manual page documents briefly the istanbul command.
istanbul is a program that allow you to record your desktop session. After you started it, you can control it with the icon in the notification area: a click on the icon to start recording, another click to stop.
istanbul preferences can be configured with a right click on the icon. You can choose to record full screen, a selected windows or a particular area.
It can also record audio from GStreamer default input.
By default it records to ~/desktop-recording.ogg
Istanbul follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (‘-’). A summary of options is included below.
−h, −?, −−help
Show summary of options.
−−version
Show version of program.
−−help−all
Print summary of all available options for istanbul.
−−help−gst
Print summary of available options for the gstreamer framework.
Istanbul was written by Zaheer Abbas Merali <zaheerabbas AT merali DOT org>.
This manual page was written by Luca Bruno <luca DOT br AT uno DOT it>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).