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Home / How To / How To Record Desktop Screen In Ubuntu

How To Record Desktop Screen In Ubuntu

By Sourabh / November 2, 2019 Category: How To, Ubuntu

How to record desktop screen in Ubuntu. Here is how to download and install Ubuntu screen recorder with audio for Ubuntu Linux Systems. Green Recorder is a screen recorder for Linux Ubuntu Desktop. It supports Wayland & Xorg.

Green Recorder app is built using Python, GTK+ 3 and ffmpeg. It supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces. Also, Green Recorder is the first desktop program to support Wayland display server on GNOME session.

The following formats are currently supported: mkv, avi, mp4, wmv, gif and nut (And only WebM for Wayland’s GNOME session). You can stop the recording process easily by right-clicking the icon and choosing “Stop Record”. Or middle-clicking the recording icon in the notifications area (but doesn’t work on all interfaces).

You can choose the audio input source you want from the list. You can also set the default values you want from the preferences window. And a lot more.

Green Recorder 2.0 on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Green Recorder on Ubuntu Systems:

sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossproject/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install green-recorder

Once installed, open the green-recorder app from Ubuntu Dash.

If you aren’t happy with the app and wish to uninstall and remove green-recorder, simply run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove green-recorder
sudo apt-get autoremove

If you need to know more about the app, visit https://launchpad.net/~mhsabbagh/+archive/ubuntu/greenproject

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