Screencast

A screencast is a digital recording of your computer desktop. This is helpful for when creating tutorial and instructional materials, demonstrate how to reproduce a bug, and demonstrating the latest desktop software.

Screencasting software

kazam

Kazam is an easy to use application for recording on-screen action.

recordmydesktop

Recordmydesktop captures audio and video data of a Linux desktop session.

ffmpeg

ffmpeg allows recording the screen via the command line. For instructions, please see here.

peek

peek is a simple animated GIF screen recorder with GUI.

Links

* Ubuntu Desktop Guide on Screenshots and screencasts