[Haskell-cafe] How to make a dock window for xmonad using gtk2hs?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Mar 4, at 21:40, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
>  I am using gtk2hs to make some sidebar thing for xmonad. Well, after
> I tried a few ways, I still cannot make it dock like xmobar. It just
> covered other windows at the edge of the screen.
>  Could someone give me a sample or something I could learn from?  
> Thanks.


You need to go to freedesktop.org and read up on the Extended Window  
Manager Hints.  In this particular case the extension you need is the  
_NET_WM_STRUT property.

(xmobar is open source, you could look through its source)

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