GNOME Shell’s built-in screen recording feature is great for capturing short clips, but if you need to record longer sessions, you’ll need to use a dedicated screen recording app.
These tools give you more control over video quality, output format, sound capture, frame rate, and more. All of these are very important if you want to create high-quality screencast content for videos, social media, or extremely useful bug reports.
There are many Linux screen recording software readily available, including: blue recorder.
Blue Recorder is an improved Rust-based rewrite. green recorderan open source screen recording tool that leverages FFMPEG and was popular around 2017 to 2019, but is no longer in development.
The latest release of Blue Recorder is now available on Flathub and Snap Store. The entire user interface has been rewritten in GTK4. This provides a visual refresh of the utility, as the layout remains largely the same as before, but the porting allows for new opportunities for future updates.
Blue recorder features:
- Record audio and video with Wayland on GNOME or KDE
- Save recordings to MKV, AVI, MP4, WMV, WEBM, GIF, NUT
- Select the audio input source from the list
- Record the entire screen, window, or area
- Mouse options
- Adjust frame rate
A few notes (I looked at the project GitHub and couldn’t find any specific information about these): The audio selector in the app only lists PulseAudio, so the app doesn’t support PipeWire yet. It seems that. Region records are grayed out in Wayland. Recording to WebM will generate an empty file.
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Install Blue Recorder
You can get and install the latest version of Blue Recorder from Flathub or from the Canonical Snap Store, but as of this writing v0.2.0 is only present in the edge channel. --dev-mode
Flags passed to actually install on Ubuntu.
Source code is available on GitHub.
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