istanbul(1)						      General Commands Manual						       istanbul(1)

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 notifi-
       cation 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  par-
       ticular 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)