[xmonad] Layout demo screen recorder recommendations sought

[Tomas Janousek]

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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