Peek is a desktop screen recorder for Linux systems designed to capture specific rectangular areas of the display. It functions as an animated image and video creator, allowing users to record short, silent screencasts of desktop activity.
The application provides a focused workflow for generating visual content, such as instructional documentation, bug reports, and project updates. It enables users to export recordings in various formats and includes options to optimize the quality and file size of animated images for web integration.
The software utilizes native display protocols to manage window selection and frame capture. It orchestrates media processing through a modular pipeline, delegating encoding tasks to external command-line utilities to manage the conversion of raw pixel data into final media files.
