dmenu-record

Screencast on Xorg with FFmpeg with cool options using any dmenu-compatible menu. I have also included a dictaphone (voice notes) which is almost the exact thing, but the default variables are different.

Features

• Sreen recording
  • Active screen
  • Selection
  • Entire workspace (multi-head)
    • Optionally different video tracks for each monitor (y/n)
• Audio
  • Record desktop audio (y/n)
  • Record microphone audio (y/n)
  • If both enabled:
    • Separate audio tracks (y/n)

Dependencies

• dmenu or anything compatible (examples below)
• ffmpeg
• xrandr
• xdotool
• slop
• pulseaudio (or pipewire-pulse)
• pactl
• a notification daemon

Examples

# --print the arguments instead of recording and quit
dmenu-record --print # only for demenu-record

# you can change the default, dmenu, for rofi. Example:
DMENU_RECORD_DMENU="rofi -dmenu -i -window-title" dmenu-record