nornagon:

2008/9/15 Don Stewart :

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Hey guys,

As you see, Devin added a videos section to the new website.

** We want some screencasts **

So if you want to record 1 .. 5 minutes of xmonad use, walking through your favorite workflows, and stick it on youtube (where you can add backing music), please do so! Let us know, and we'll add it to the website.

Videos showing how xmonad makes you more productive will be very very compelling, to the unitiated. Show us how xmonad makes you into a rock star!

Does anyone know of a good screencasting application? import in a for loop doesn't quite cut it :P

xvidcap is one that works. Here, I just recorded on tiny session, http://galois.com/~dons/tmp/test-0000.mpeg -- Don

obrien654j:

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 07:59:37AM +1000, Jeremy Apthorp wrote:

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2008/9/15 Don Stewart :

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Hey guys,

As you see, Devin added a videos section to the new website.

** We want some screencasts **

So if you want to record 1 .. 5 minutes of xmonad use, walking through your favorite workflows, and stick it on youtube (where you can add backing music), please do so! Let us know, and we'll add it to the website.

Videos showing how xmonad makes you more productive will be very very compelling, to the unitiated. Show us how xmonad makes you into a rock star!

Does anyone know of a good screencasting application? import in a for loop doesn't quite cut it :P

Jeremy

recordmydesktop is the definite way to go.

Ah, nice and fast. Yes, it seems to be pretty good. -- Don

me:

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 02:57:28PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

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** We want some screencasts ** Yes!

If you want to help the screencast campaign but don't feel like making a screencast, I think a tool to display keypresses would be cool. (Like, in the bottom right -- when you hold down alt, a little "Alt-" box appears. When you press and release Alt-J, it have to hang there for a half-second, of course.) Just a thought (that I'm too lazy to act on, at the moment).

Or perhaps this already exists?

Here's an initial screencast, using xvidcap. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyoLS-zOgE The quality isn't so great. Any suggestions on how to get hi res? I also tried istanbul, but the result was very jumpy and broken. -- Don