[xmonad] master window with fixed pixels layout.

[Brandon Allbery]

xmonad does everything in terms of fractions of a screen size, because a
workspace is not pinned to a particular monitor and monitors may have
different resolutions. So it's not clear what a pixel-based size would do,
especially if it were bigger than one of the monitors.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 4:11 PM Alejandro Garcia <agarciafdz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello first of all thank you for xmonad.
> the seconds I have saved every day by not having o drag and drop windows
> has given me more time to focus on what matters.
> get the job done and go home to play with my kids.
>
>  I would like to know:
> Is there a window layout with the property that the width and height
> of the master window can be specified in pixels?
>
>
> my use case Is that I would like to record video casts.
> But it would be helpful for me if the window size of the master window
> stays fixed independently of the other windows open in the screen.
>
> I have checke FixedColumns. but on it the Width of the column is
> specified in a rare metric (characters?)
> plus the height is not fixed.
>
> Any recommendation ?
> Thanks in advance.
>
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