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The purpose of wf-recorder is to create a video file by recording your desktop. To use it, install and run it with

wf-recorder

It will output some text and begin recording. Use Ctrl+C to stop recording. The video file will be stored as recording.mp4 in the current working directory.

Audio

To tell wf-recorder to record audio, use -a

wf-recorder -a

Check pavucontrol recording tab for an entry while it is recording and choose the input. Optionally pass --device=<device> where <device> is one output by pacmd list-sources|grep "name:". Note that by default, either mic input or monitor of speakers can be used for input but not both. You can work around this by running pactl load-module module-loopback to load the loopback module, which outputs the mic to the default speaker output.