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The following two key bindings will add simple screen recording hotkeys:

• Mod+Shift+Alt+F11 records a region or the full screen to ~/Videos/screen_capture.mp4
• Mod+Shift+Alt+F12 records a region or the full screen to ~/Videos/screen_capture.mp4 with the audio output.

bindsym $mod+Shift+Alt+F11 exec pkill wf-recorder && notify-send "Video captured in ~/Videos/screen_capture.mp4" || wf-recorder -y -g "$(slurp)" -f ~/Videos/screen_capture.mp4
bindsym $mod+Shift+Alt+F12 exec pkill wf-recorder && notify-send "Video with audio output captured in ~/Videos/screen_capture.mp4" || wf-recorder -y -g "$(slurp)" -f ~/Videos/screen_capture.mp4 -a=alsa_output.platform-analog-sound.stereo-fallback.monitor

Hit the key combo, select the whole screen or the region you want to record, then hit the key combo again to stop the recording.

You need to install wf-recorder, slurp and notify-send for those key bindings to work.

In addition, for the Mod+Shift+Alt+F12 binding, you need Pulseaudio or Pipewire to capture the audio sink’s monitor, and you probably need to find out what name it has on your system and replace the name after -a=

To figure out the name of the monitor, simply list the audio sources on your system:

$ pactl list sources | grep Name
	Name: alsa_output.platform-analog-sound.stereo-fallback.monitor
	Name: alsa_input.platform-analog-sound.stereo-fallback

Naturally, you can use any other source you want - your microphone for example if you want to talk over the screen capture.