README

"byzanz is awesome. i love byzanz. to me it represents pragmatic utility over idealistic artistry" -- Mike Hearn

Byzanz is a simple tool to record a running X desktop to an animation suitable for presentation in a web browser. It's design has been guided by the following principles:

• PURPOSE Byzanz records animations for presentation in a web browser. If something doesn't fit this goal, it should not be part of Byzanz.
• CORRECTNESS When Byzanz provides a feature, it does this correctly. In particular, it does not crash or corrupt data.
• SIMPLICITY The user interface and programming code are simple and easy to understand and don't contain any unecessary features. Byzanz does not attempt to do be smarter than you are.
• UNOBTRUSIVENESS Byzanz does not interfere with the task you are recording, neither by keeping a large settings window around nor by consuming all your CPU during a recording.

Byzanz is implemented as a GNOME applet. A command line tool for testing purposes is available, too.

The most current code is available in GNOME git in the byzanz module. It can be obtained via the following command: git clone git://git.gnome.org/byzanz Releases are available for download at http://www.freedesktop.org/~company/byzanz