Share your desktop, what does it look like?

Thunder · 13 September 2023 22:56

I learned that transparent menu trick from a post by @Aravisian

Frog · 13 September 2023 23:29

That looks a lot better to me ..... not quite as busy looking ....

Mr_Magoo · 14 September 2023 09:44

Someone else here mentioned a circular launcher menu...

sudo apt search gnome-pie

gnome-pie/focal 0.7.2-1 amd64
  visual application launcher for GNOME

sudo apt install gnome-pie

Thunder · 14 September 2023 15:13

I wish I could record this so you could see it animated.

Storm · 14 September 2023 15:21

use GPU Screen Recorder and upload it via Youtube, that what I do.

zenzen · 14 September 2023 18:48

I will also recommend Simple Screen Recorder, since it's, well, simple and easy to use (and the only one I know, really).

swarfendor437 · 14 September 2023 20:41

"It was the freedom that brought apathy."

"It was the apathy that brought slavery."

Frog · 14 September 2023 23:30

Removed due to possible controversy .....

Thunder · 14 September 2023 23:51

I just have old Intel graphics sorry if the video doesn't work right.

zenzen · 14 September 2023 23:53

That's not the one that I was thinking of although is always good to learn about new alternatives.

https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/#download

EDIT: The one you linked to looks quite good, being able to annotate things and highlight without having to edit the screenshots separately is a big plus, although it's not clear if you can also do the same with videos (that would also be fantastic).

On the other hand, they seem quite pushy about creating an account in order to be able to make recordings longer than 5 minutes, and it looks like they're uploading content to another video platform of theirs by default.

That's still a generous free offering but I'm not a big fan of that type of stuff. There's also no source code to verify their claims about privacy and security... we had a recent discussion about installing software from untrusted sources.

Note that I've just taken a quick look so I could be wrong.

Frog · 15 September 2023 00:33

Quick catch .... thanks for pointing that out I don't ever want to mislead someone with a download that could be harmful ..... I removed the post and link and downloaded the correct apt ....

If you are using Ubuntu 17.04 or newer, SimpleScreenRecorder can be found in the official repositories. You can install it with:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder