[xmonad] Layout demo screen recorder recommendations sought

[Miles Sabin]

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/
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>
>
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