drawframe)drawframe allows you to draw a frame on the screen. This frame will always appears on the top of all windows. It is useful if you want to record the desktop for a screencast, for example.
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With the binary for Linux, either from github or from your own compilation (see below), run the program with:
This assumes it has the execution permission. If not:
The program takes one argument, wich can be a geometry in the form of <WIDTH>x<HEIGHT>, for example 1280x720. You could also add an offset, positive or negative, for example 1280x720+100+100. So:
You can also use a list of predefined resolution, with an offset of +100+100:
| res | width | height |
|---|---|---|
| 720p | 1280 | 720 |
| 1080p | 1920 | 1080 |
| vga | 640 | 480 |
| svga | 800 | 600 |
| xga | 1024 | 768 |
| wxga | 1280 | 800 |
For example:
To get more help, use the -h flag.
If you want to compile from source, use the Makefile and juste run make. You will need the X11 and Xext libraries (you can install them with the packages libx11-dev and libxext-dev on Ubuntu).
Some parts of the code hav been inspired and adapted from recordmydesktop (v0.3.8.1) by John Varouhakis, which you can download at recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net.