From miles at milessabin.com  Wed Jul  2 11:32:14 2025
From: miles at milessabin.com (Miles Sabin)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 12:32:14 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] Layout demo screen recorder recommendations sought
In-Reply-To: <aGMFT0o2pPQDRzqy@nomi.cz>
References: <CAAtns_BHt0uRSTeJguQbpO3pAY6oEzFR=aapRDE9Va4dWvOurg@mail.gmail.com>
 <aGMFT0o2pPQDRzqy@nomi.cz>
Message-ID: <CAAtns_BrO+zzCt+OvNq1EEk2MwqmFOXUw-Yw9dqdToLOk3_pWg@mail.gmail.com>

That's super helpful ... thanks!

Cheers,


Miles

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 22:44, Tomas Janousek <tomi at nomi.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi Miles,
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 09:26:21PM +0100, Miles Sabin wrote:
>
> I've been working on a new layout, specifically for ultrawide
> displays. I'd like to record a demo of the layout in use. Does anyone
> have any recommendations for software for that, formats to publish in
> etc. etc.
>
> I vaguely remember using https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG and https://obsproject.com/ in the past. The latter (OBS) makes it possible (and quite easy) to include your webcam and microphone in the recording, and can even detect/remove background and do other filtering and transitions (like from fullscreen webcam into desktop + webcam overlay), all in real-time. So I'd definitely go with OBS.
>
> One caveat is that being for ultrawide monitors, the unscaled frame
> size would be pretty large (5120x1440 for mine) which might present
> some special issues ... advice would be most welcome.
>
> Switch the resolution to 1280x360. Fonts and icons will be massive but the layout will behave the same.
>
> --
>
> Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://lisk.in/



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From miles at milessabin.com  Sat Jul 12 18:07:15 2025
From: miles at milessabin.com (Miles Sabin)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:07:15 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] New layout for ultrawide monitors
Message-ID: <CAAtns_ADE5LhuBsg479yktrAsedu89=GmYLtwpi=3bxDCJUhkg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi folks,

I've published a new layout for ultrawide monitors. I put this
together after trying several of the existing layouts that target
ultrawides, but finding that none of them really worked quite the way
I wanted.

The repo is here,

  https://github.com/milessabin/ThreeColumnStable

There's a small animated demo which is hopefully worth a few thousand words.

Any and all feedback would be very much appreciated, including on
Haskell style (I'm a functional programmer but not a Haskeller).

Cheers,


Miles

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From miles at milessabin.com  Sat Jul 12 18:11:24 2025
From: miles at milessabin.com (Miles Sabin)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:11:24 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] Layout demo screen recorder recommendations sought
In-Reply-To: <CAAtns_BrO+zzCt+OvNq1EEk2MwqmFOXUw-Yw9dqdToLOk3_pWg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAAtns_BHt0uRSTeJguQbpO3pAY6oEzFR=aapRDE9Va4dWvOurg@mail.gmail.com>
 <aGMFT0o2pPQDRzqy@nomi.cz>
 <CAAtns_BrO+zzCt+OvNq1EEk2MwqmFOXUw-Yw9dqdToLOk3_pWg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAAtns_DZq1ZJLrCbB1RDrTAa70=a2aZy_UO65j86k2R_5YUktQ@mail.gmail.com>

My monitor wasn't at all happy with the lower resolution, so I ended
up using Xephyr to create a small nested X session running XMonad.
Then I scripted a demo with xdotool, captured with obs, and tweaked
and added captions with ffmpeg. I've not done that kind of thing
before and was pleasantly surprised how smoothly it went.

Thanks again for the pointers :-)

Cheers,


Miles

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 12:32, Miles Sabin <miles at milessabin.com> wrote:
>
> That's super helpful ... thanks!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Miles
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 22:44, Tomas Janousek <tomi at nomi.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Miles,
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 09:26:21PM +0100, Miles Sabin wrote:
> >
> > I've been working on a new layout, specifically for ultrawide
> > displays. I'd like to record a demo of the layout in use. Does anyone
> > have any recommendations for software for that, formats to publish in
> > etc. etc.
> >
> > I vaguely remember using https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG and https://obsproject.com/ in the past. The latter (OBS) makes it possible (and quite easy) to include your webcam and microphone in the recording, and can even detect/remove background and do other filtering and transitions (like from fullscreen webcam into desktop + webcam overlay), all in real-time. So I'd definitely go with OBS.
> >
> > One caveat is that being for ultrawide monitors, the unscaled frame
> > size would be pretty large (5120x1440 for mine) which might present
> > some special issues ... advice would be most welcome.
> >
> > Switch the resolution to 1280x360. Fonts and icons will be massive but the layout will behave the same.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://lisk.in/
>
>
>
> --
> Miles Sabin
> https://bsky.app/profile/milessabin.com
> https://types.pl/@milessabin
> https://milessabin.com/blog



-- 
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From cryptobull2001 at gmail.com  Sat Jul 12 18:24:25 2025
From: cryptobull2001 at gmail.com (Fred Mitchell)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:24:25 -0400
Subject: [xmonad] New layout for ultrawide monitors
In-Reply-To: <CAAtns_ADE5LhuBsg479yktrAsedu89=GmYLtwpi=3bxDCJUhkg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAAtns_ADE5LhuBsg479yktrAsedu89=GmYLtwpi=3bxDCJUhkg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <29b9f40dfc4fe891f52ee0e5f584fe9813d930fc.camel@atomlogik.de>

Wow.

Some time back, I was interested in hacking XMonad to do the same, across
multiple large monitors.

For that, I learned Haskell, and then was amazed by Haskell itself and never got
around to hacking XMonad!

And these days I've using Hyprland. Perhaps I can do a WMonad or HMonad for it!
I have already done one project which is now in the AUR, and am working on an ML
currently.

Once I am done, we'll see.

Fred


On Sat, 2025-07-12 at 19:07 +0100, Miles Sabin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've published a new layout for ultrawide monitors. I put this
> together after trying several of the existing layouts that target
> ultrawides, but finding that none of them really worked quite the way
> I wanted.
> 
> The repo is here,
> 
>   https://github.com/milessabin/ThreeColumnStable
> 
> There's a small animated demo which is hopefully worth a few thousand words.
> 
> Any and all feedback would be very much appreciated, including on
> Haskell style (I'm a functional programmer but not a Haskeller).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Miles
> 
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From soliditsallgood at mailbox.org  Sun Jul 13 05:37:44 2025
From: soliditsallgood at mailbox.org (Tony Zorman)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:37:44 +0200
Subject: [xmonad] New layout for ultrawide monitors
In-Reply-To: <CAAtns_ADE5LhuBsg479yktrAsedu89=GmYLtwpi=3bxDCJUhkg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAAtns_ADE5LhuBsg479yktrAsedu89=GmYLtwpi=3bxDCJUhkg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <87ms988xcn.fsf@hyperspace>

On Sat, Jul 12 2025 19:07, Miles Sabin wrote:
> I've published a new layout for ultrawide monitors. I put this
> together after trying several of the existing layouts that target
> ultrawides, but finding that none of them really worked quite the way
> I wanted.
>
> The repo is here,
>
>   https://github.com/milessabin/ThreeColumnStable

Looks cool! Would you perhaps be interested in contributing this to
xmonad-contrib?

-- 
Tony Zorman | https://tony-zorman.com

From adbrucker at 0x5f.org  Sun Jul 13 12:02:15 2025
From: adbrucker at 0x5f.org (Achim D. Brucker)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:02:15 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] Layout demo screen recorder recommendations sought
In-Reply-To: <uagckbhqsgkuwschjmgqa54o5ne25k2dm3oibrt7ci2bodmfg2@jqt5tdx2rwmp>
References: <uagckbhqsgkuwschjmgqa54o5ne25k2dm3oibrt7ci2bodmfg2@jqt5tdx2rwmp>
Message-ID: <6nfyesipunwv6hctsf2jofpsnhrjzhldqjeldwsxtslwlfztbn@7ldjxwwp4yai>

Hi,
To add to the discussion on a layout for screen recording and screen
sharing on ultra wide displays: I am using since a few years a layout
inspired by ThreColMid (which is my work-horse for daily work), where
the resolution of the main window is fixed to a 'standard" resolution.
 
This allows to share the main window without the receiving end being
"overwhelmed" or to record the window in the desired video
resolution.
 
In addition, I use a nested X server (e.g., Xephyr) to share a "clean"
desktop.
 
If anybody is interested to have a look, I put my implementation online:
https://git.logicalhacking.com/adbrucker/xmonad-recording-layout
 
Best,
        Achim

From miles at milessabin.com  Mon Jul 14 09:17:19 2025
From: miles at milessabin.com (Miles Sabin)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:17:19 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] New layout for ultrawide monitors
In-Reply-To: <87ms988xcn.fsf@hyperspace>
References: <CAAtns_ADE5LhuBsg479yktrAsedu89=GmYLtwpi=3bxDCJUhkg@mail.gmail.com>
 <87ms988xcn.fsf@hyperspace>
Message-ID: <CAAtns_BR65jDrmaE=TS5bOu=jrR29VADfpd6zyZ3k=YqfenVfg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 at 06:37, Tony Zorman <soliditsallgood at mailbox.org> wrote:
> Looks cool! Would you perhaps be interested in contributing this to
> xmonad-contrib?

I'd be honored. I'll leave it for a few weeks to see if there's any
interesting feedback to be incorporated first.

Cheers,


Miles

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https://types.pl/@milessabin
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