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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)