RecordMyDesktop

Home page: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/

Recordmydesktop consists of three main programs, recordmydesktop is a command line tool with gtk-recordmydesktop and qt-recordmydesktop as the graphical frontends for GTK and QT environments.

Installation

Recordmydesktop has been added to the universe repository, and so can be installed easily:-

$ sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop 

Installation

Once installed gtk-recordmydesktop is found under Applications -> Sound & Video

Tips: Switch off sound recording with the "--nosound" option to reduce CPU overhead.