An XMonad Layout for Recording and Screen-Sharing on Ultra-Wide Displays

A layout for the XMonad window manager for X11 that is optimized for recording and screen-sharing on ultra-wide displays. At its core, it is a variant of the ThreColMid layout, i.e., a three column layout with the main window in the middle column. The specific feature of the Recording layout is that the size of the main window is guaranteed to be a standard resolution (either 16x9, 16x10, or 4x3).

Installation

Copy the provided Recording.hs into your $HOME/.xmonad directory. In your xmonad.hs file, import the new layout:

import LH.Recording

and add the new Layout to your list of layouts, e.g.,

myLayoutHook = avoidStruts (smartBorders( (layoutHook def)
               ||| ThreeColMid 1 (3/100) (1/2)
               ||| tabbed shrinkText myTabConfig
               ||| Recording 2 R16x9 4))

The Recording layout accepts three parameters:

• the first parameter is the number of windows in the middle column,
• the second parameter is the aspect ration, i.e.,
  • R4x3 for fixing the middle column to 4x3 resolutions. The list of supported resolutions is: [(640, 480), (800, 600), (960, 720), (1024, 768), (1280, 960), (1400, 1050), (1440, 1080 ), (1600, 1200), (1856, 1392), (1920, 1440), (2048, 1536)],
  • R16x10 for fixing the middle column to 16x10 resolutions. The list of supported resolutions is: [(1280, 800), (1440, 900), (1680, 1050), (1920, 1200), (2560, 1600)],
  • • R16x9 for fixing the middle column to 16x9 resolutions. The list of supported resolutions is: [(640, 360), (768, 432), (896, 504), (1024, 576), (1152, 648), (1280, 720), (1366, 768), (1600, 900), (1920, 1080), (2560, 1440), (3840, 2160)],
  • the default resolution, specified as position in the list of supported resolutions for the chosen aspect ratio.

Authors

Main Contacts

• Achim D. Brucker

Contributors

License

This project is licensed under a two-clause BSD license. Note that individual plug-ins might have different license and usage restrictions. If a plugin has a different license, a LICENSE file is provided in the corresponding plug-in directory.

SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

Upstream Repository

The upstream git repository, i.e., the single source of truth, for this project is hosted by the Software Assurance & Security Research Team at https://git.logicalhacking.com/adbrucker/xmonad-recording-layout/.