[xmonad] Layout demo screen recorder recommendations sought

[Miles Sabin]

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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