Kooha — The Complete Guide: Minimalist Linux Screen Recording That Works on Wayland
Kooha is a small Linux screen recorder with an almost one-button interface. It was built for modern desktops and works well on Wayland, where many older tools fail. It is licensed under GPL-3.0, free for any use including commercial, and the official distribution is through Flathub.
Kooha
Dave Patrick Caberto
Minimalist Linux screen recorder that works well on Wayland, with system and microphone audio and MP4 or GIF output.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Area selection — the whole screen or part of it.
- Audio — system audio, microphone or both together.
- Formats — WebM, MP4, GIF or MKV.
- Basic settings — save folder, frame rate, a delay before recording starts and cursor visibility.
- Wayland compatibility — quick recording of a bug or a software workflow on current distributions.
What it does not do
Kooha aims for simplicity, so a few things are missing: there is no webcam, no editing, and single-window recording is still experimental. For a tutorial with a camera or layers, move to OBS Studio, and for trimming the video after recording use a separate video editor.
Related tools
For scenes, webcam and streaming — OBS Studio. For recording encoded on the graphics card — GPU Screen Recorder. For a simple recorder with webcam and click highlighting — vokoscreenNG.
OBS Studio
OBS Project
Screen recording and streaming — software tutorials, model walkthroughs and recorded lectures in high quality.
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GPU Screen Recorder
dec05eba
Linux screen recorder that encodes on the graphics card, with a replay buffer that saves the last few minutes.
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vokoscreenNG
Volker Kohaupt
Simple screen recording for Windows and Linux with webcam, multiple audio sources, a magnifier and click highlighting.
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Shotcut
Meltytech
A free video editor — cut, caption, add callouts and export tutorial and site-inspection videos.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
The quickest way to record the screen on Linux with Wayland: open it, click and get a file, with no complicated settings.