Turns out resizing animated gifs with imagemagick is clumsy. Gifsicle does it quick and without fuss. Below is my command, taught by askubuntu. gifsicle --resize-width 600 helm-org-clock.gif -o hoc-smaller.gif This resizes my screen-capture gif to a scaled width of 600 and whatever height keeps the proportions, which dropped my size from 160k to 58k.

Wanting to demonstrate the power of emacs M-x butterfly, I needed to make the sort of gif-screen-capture I’ve seen others put to good work. Extra snag: I use emacs itself for a window manager, so the first online recommendation of Peek didn’t work. Instead I found the open-source byzanz to record; however, it requires knowing the screen-portion and length of the gif beforehand. Other than that, though, it worked great even on my exwm (GUI-resistant) system.