GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346220
dogtail-run-headless should have an option to record a movie of the fake X server
Last modified: 2011-02-07 06:05:50 UTC
It would be useful when reviewing logs of test execution to have a movie of what happened, to go along with the log file. So dogtail-run-headless should have an option to record a movie of the X server. Potentially it could also create a thumbnail version of a still from the end of the movie, when reviewing large numbers of logs. My current favourite candidate is "byzanz": as well as a well-implemented applet for taking screencasts, it contains a "byzanz-record" tool which captures an animated gif file of an X server. It appears to currently work with a duration of capture; we'd rather have it run until the X server itself goes away, but this is probably fixable. It's in gnome-cvs as "byzanz", and is e.g. available within Fedora Extras. Other candidates are: - istanbul - vnc2swf
Good idea; I'll look into that.
The duration needn't be a problem: just set it to some arbitrarily large value. Space could be an issue: I recorded an example and it came to 3.5M for about 10 seconds of recording.
Created attachment 68187 [details] 137k recording of the gcalctool example script I generated this using: Xnest :1 -ac & \ byzanz-record --duration=30 --display=:1 ~/byzanz-example-dogtail.gif & \ DISPLAY=:1 ./gcalctool-test-fibonacci.py
137k for 30 seconds is much more acceptable, spacewise IMHO
dogtail development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.