What would be a good way to record my screen?

[merry scarab]

See title, I'm not looking for a full-fledged tool like you would need to stream or edit videos... I just want to be able to quickly record short clips of my screen.

[ocean sequoia]

OBS Studio

Or SimpleScreenRecorder

sudo apt update
sudo apt install obs-studio (If you wish to use OBS)
sudo apt install simplescreenrecorder (If you wish to use Simple Screen Recorder)

[kind drum]

In cinnamon, you can use Ctrl + Shift + R to record the entire screen (you can customize the shortcut in the keyboard settings). But for me the vids were a low frame rate.

Personally, I didn't like SimpleScreenRecorder or OBSstudio bec they give too much control. Kazam is quite simple but I had issues with it on my laptop bec it couldn't handle my screen resolution. You may have better luck with it.

I ended up using an applet called "ScreenShot+Record Desktop", which allows me to record the entire screen or a window, with or without audio. And the video quality is good. If you want to use this applet, run apt install ffmpeg xdotool x11-utils before installing it (these packages r required). The issue with this is that its an applet and it also does not have keyboard shortcuts. Surely there is a way to make shortcuts for it, but im a noob. Please lmk if you know how to create a keyboard shortcut for this

[radiant raven]

If you wanna clip like NVIDIA shadowplay, obs is the best alternative

[merry scarab]

when I search i can't find that CTRL + SHIFT + R to record.... I can find a hotkey to toggle capturing the entire screen but it's CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + R

[kind drum]

Oh yeah thats it. I forgot that i changed the shortcut for that