nstall termstovg
All you need as pre-requisite is python installed in your Linux computer. The good news is the compatibility with python 3.5 and more. On Ubuntu 18.04 for example, you have already python installed and the default version is python-3.6. You can check as below:
$ dpkg -l | grep python3.6 ii libpython3.6:amd64 3.6.5-3 amd64 Shared Python runtime library (version 3.6) ii libpython3.6-minimal:amd64 3.6.5-3 amd64 Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.6) ii libpython3.6-stdlib:amd64 3.6.5-3 amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (standard library, version 3.6) ii python3.6 3.6.5-3 amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.6) ii python3.6-minimal 3.6.5-3 amd64 Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.6)
Now you need to install also pip for python
$ sudo apt install python3-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: ... ...
Now install the requirements for termtosvg which are
- pyte to render the terminal screen
- svgwrite to create SVG animations
- python-xlib to query the X server for color configuration and to parse Xresources data
- base16-xresources for default color themes
$ pip3 install pyte python-xlib svgwrite Collecting pyte ... Collecting python3-xlib Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ef/c6/2c5999de3bb1533521f1101e8fe56fd9c266732f4d48011c7c69b29d12ae/python3-xlib-0.15.tar.gz (132kB) ....
Now for the default color themes, run the command below:
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chriskempson/base16-xresources/master/xresources/base16-default-dark-256.Xresources >> ~/.Xresources $ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
A file ~/.Xressources is now present on your home and you can paste the termtosvg colors below.
$ vim ~/.Xresources
termtosvg.foreground: #f8f8f2
termtosvg.background: #272822
termtosvg.color0: #272822
termtosvg.color1: #f92672
termtosvg.color2: #a6e22e
termtosvg.color3: #f4bf75
termtosvg.color4: #66d9ef
termtosvg.color5: #ae81ff
termtosvg.color6: #a1efe4
termtosvg.color7: #f8f8f2
termtosvg.color8: #75715e
termtosvg.color9: #fd971f
termtosvg.color10: #383830
termtosvg.color11: #49483e
termtosvg.color12: #a59f85
termtosvg.color13: #f5f4f1
termtosvg.color14: #cc6633
termtosvg.color15: #f9f8f5
Then you can install termtosvg through pip
# pip3 install termtosvg Collecting termtosvg Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/04/43/dd755b9185f58c4a4cf49fa710a0966b32b68e930c33bab785cf926201bd/termtosvg-0.2.2-py3-none-any.whl Collecting pyte (from termtosvg) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/66/37/6fed89b484c8012a0343117f085c92df8447a18af4966d25599861cd5aa0/pyte-0.8.0.tar.gz (50kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 6.0MB/s Collecting python-xlib (from termtosvg) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/54/44/e56454e3ce8fd2333e635d704e157e9cc432a375ab6b680e3c98dd7c3bc0/python_xlib-0.23-py2.py3-none-any.whl (123kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 133kB 5.5MB/s Collecting svgwrite (from termtosvg) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9f/27/a29fc710b5fc4dc8031d55e903c1352a194df4014dccf8b507049dd754e6/svgwrite-1.1.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl (64kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 6.5MB/s Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from termtosvg) Collecting wcwidth (from pyte->termtosvg) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7e/9f/526a6947247599b084ee5232e4f9190a38f398d7300d866af3ab571a5bfe/wcwidth-0.1.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.10.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from python-xlib->termtosvg) Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing>=2.0.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from svgwrite->termtosvg) Building wheels for collected packages: pyte Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyte ... done Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/c0/dd/4a/d0ec26b9d07a3b48e25ba3456dc9bcab875686af6da9e23fcd Successfully built pyte Installing collected packages: wcwidth, pyte, python-xlib, svgwrite, termtosvg Successfully installed pyte-0.8.0 python-xlib-0.23 svgwrite-1.1.12 termtosvg-0.2.2 wcwidth-0.1.7
Record a terminal session
To start recording your session live terminal, just run the termstosvg command in your terminal and use the exit command to end the recording process.
Start the recording
$ termtosvg Recording started, enter "exit" command or Control-D to end
Then enter the commands and work. When you have finished, you can end the recording live session. You can see that it indicates path (generally /tmp) and the name of the recorded file
$ exit exit Recording ended, SVG animation is /tmp/termtosvg_ksz18r3y.svg
