Gnome - Record the screen

The built-in Gnome screen recorder does have limitations:

There is no time delay options before the recordings start.
There is no pause and play option.
It records the entire screen. No option to record only an application window or a certain monitor.
It only uses webm format.

A better full-fledged screen recorder is Kazam.

Start Recording

CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + R

This will immediately start recording the desktop.

A red dot will be displayed in the system tray area of the top panel.

The recordings are saved in webm format in the Videos folder.

CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + R

The maximum recording time, by default, is just 30 seconds.

Increase it:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys max-screencast-length 300

This increases the maximum length of the recording to 5 minutes.

Change it to 0 to not have a limit.