[Xmonad] xinerama and statusbar

[Spencer Janssen]

On Friday 14 September 2007 12:29:59 David Roundy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:24:29AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > lobzang:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm using a custom statusbar with dzen, in a xinerama environment (
> > > defaultGaps = [(15,0,0,0)] in config file)
> > > This starts well, however when I open a new window (term) on the second
> > > screen, the statusbar is overlapped by the terminal window.
> >
> > the status bar gap field is a list of geometries for each physical
> > screen. to have a gap on the second screen, you'd use something like:
> >
> >       = [(15,0,0,0), (15,0,0,0)]
> >
> > we might default to running the same gap on all screens -- perhaps that
> > is what most people expect?
>
> Is there any way we can detect when a program appears to be a status bar?
> Then we could simply adjust the gaps to compensate, which I suspect is what
> people would really expect...

There are some ways, there are a few properties in EWMH, STRUT and DOCK IIRC.
We'd need to patch dzen/xmobar to actually use these properties.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen