Learn Peek

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Introduction

Basic information

ICT Competency Peek is a Free and open source software application that can be used for creating silent screencasts of an area of the screen for creating GIF animations.

Also, you can use this tool for screecasting and it will save silent WebM or MP4 formats.

Educational application and relevance Animation(gif) files can be very helpful when you want to demonstrate something that would be difficult to explain in screenshots or videos.
Version 1.2.1 version.
Configuration No specific configuration requirements.
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The application on mobiles and tablets
Development and community help

Overview of Features

Installation

  1. The application is not part of the Ubuntu custom distribution.
  2. You have to use terminal for installing this application.
    1. Open terminal by clicking Applications->System Tools->Terminal or through Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T
    2. In the terminal window, run the below commands one by one.
    3. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peek-developers/stable
    4. Just type your password(it will not display on your screen), press Enter
    5. sudo apt update && sudo apt install peek

Working with the application

Please see this link to know how to create animated gifs on ubuntu - http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/11/record-animated-gif-ubuntu-16-04-peek

Application Interface

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