It's simple wizard-like user interface may seem a bit confusing at first, but the tool is quite easy to use and powerful in the same time.

Keyboard shortcut for starting, pausing and resuming the recording.There are also options for choosing the desired bitrate (for Theora and VP8) or preset (for H.264) It Supports Matroska (MKV), MP4, WebM, OGG and other containers, with H.264, VP8 and Theora video codecs, and Vorbis, MP3, AAC audio codecs, among many others. It uses libavformat (part of FFmpeg) to encode the recorded material into a variety of video formats.Record audio - it allows selecting the backend (ALSA, PulseAudio, JACK) and source.Configurable recording coordinates and frame rate, scale video, optionally record (or exclude) mouse cursor.Record the entire screen (including all screens or a particular screen in multi-monitor setups), a fixed rectangle, an application window, follow the cursor, or record an OpenGL program.This application is only for desktop recording, leaving everything else you might want to add on top to other applications, like a dedicated webcam application, or a video editor. There's no option to record a live webcam (you can use a different application for that), can't add any effects, text or anything like that. While it has quite a few screen recording related features, which you'll see below, SimpleScreenRecorder doesn't have any extras on top of that. It should also be noted that the tool doesn't try to do anything else other than recording your screen. Despite its name, this is a feature-rich screen recorder what its name actually means is that it's easy to use this application to record your screen thanks to its sane default settings that don't require tweaking to get started. SimpleScreenRecorder is a Qt5 screen recorder for X11 that supports OpenGL. The article initially only included 4 screencast tools, but I later added one more (RecApp).

Even though they might still work, they have many bugs that will probably never be fixed. I skipped applications that are no longer maintained, like Kazam, ScreenStudio or Green Recorder. All work under X11, and there are also a few solutions for recording your Linux screen under Wayland. This article presents 5 tools for recording your Linux desktop.

Make a simple recorder