

This will allow you to first select the window with a mouse click, and it starts recording after you click. You can select to record a single window as shown at: How can I get the value of Window ID? recordmydesktop -windowid `xwininfo | grep 'id: 0x' | grep -Eo '0x+'` with: recordmydesktop -stop-shortcut=Control+s You can set a stop recording shortcut e.g. It should be able to do everything that gtk-recordmydesktop does, but it is a bit harder to learn as you have to deal with the command lines. I haven't seen any significant downsides to that option yet, likely it will just take a bit more of CPU resources, but it is generally worth it. on-the-fly-encoding encodes the output immediately without it you need to wait for a possibly long time at the end for the encoding to be done. This will record until you stop the program on the terminal e.g. This is the non-GUI backend of recordmydesktop, and it is still available in 20.04: sudo apt install recordmydesktop But this indicates that the software is not being actively supported. I'm not sure why the link seems to work, maybe it installs an older version. Adds an easy to use graphical icon on the GNOME toolbar to make a pleasure use and configure the audio and video capture and screencast application recordMyDesktop.Īs mentioned at 20.04: Can't install gtk-recordmydesktop and on the package search, the package is not available on the main repository anymore, and sudo apt install gtk-recordmydesktop fails.
