This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows.




Xbox Game Bar is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is GPU Screen Recorder, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Xbox Game Bar and 16 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Xbox Game Bar are SimpleScreenRecorder, VokoscreenNG, Kooha and Peek GIF Screen Recorder.
This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows.




SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It is easy to use, feature-rich, and has a Qt-based graphical user interface. It can record the entire screen or part of it, or record OpenGL applications directly.




VokoscreenNG is a user friendly screencaster for Linux and Windows. It is a continuation of the now discontinued Vokoscreen project that has been totally rewritten from scratch using Qt and GStreamer.






Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports.




Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.



If you spend too much time on email and chat, try sending instant video messages and screenshots with ScreenRec. You'll get your point across faster and save precious hours.




Show transparent, click-through browser window overlays on screen. Like your Twitch chat and alerts on top of your game.



Datarhei/Restreamer offers smart free video streaming in real time. Stream H.264 video of IP cameras live to your website. Upload your live video on YouTube, Ustream, Twitch, Livestream.com or any other streaming solutions e.g. Wowza-Streaming-Engine.

Snowmix is a video mixer tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports clipping, scaling and transparent overlay of video, png graphics and text. It supports animation of video, images and texts through native commands changing scale, placement...




ffscreencast is an ffmpeg screencast/desktop-recording tool for the command-line with video overlay and multi monitor support.


features like recording system sound and recording only one window do not exist