Cheap Ubuntu screencast tutorial

Here’s the cheapest, easiest way I know of to make a visual-only screencast in Ubuntu.

Install recordMyDesktop: sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop

If you want to record only a specific window, get the window ID with xwininfo, a pre-install utilitiy.

Start recording with recordMyDesktop --windowId [id], where [id] is the window id.

CTRL-C in the window will stop the recording, and automatically produce the video in .ogg format.