NAME

       istanbul - a desktop session recorder

SYNOPSIS

       istanbul [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the istanbul command.

       istanbul  is  a  program that allow you to record your desktop session.  After you started
       it, you can control it with the icon in the notification area: a  click  on  the  icon  to
       start recording, another click to stop.

       istanbul  preferences can be configured with a right click on the icon.  You can choose to
       record full screen, a selected windows or a particular area.

       It can also record audio from GStreamer default input.

       By default it records to ~/desktop-recording.ogg

OPTIONS

       Istanbul follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options  starting  with  two
       dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included below.

       -h, -?, --help
              Show summary of options.

       --version
              Show version of program.

       --help-all
              Print summary of all available options for istanbul.

       --help-gst
              Print summary of available options for the gstreamer framework.

AUTHORS

       Istanbul was written by Zaheer Abbas Merali <zaheerabbas@merali.org>.

       This  manual  page was written by Luca Bruno <luca.br@uno.it>, for the Debian project (but
       may be used by others).

                                         02 October 2005                              istanbul(1)