[xmonad] prevent stalone tray from overlapping

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 2/6/11 13:22 , Brendan Miller wrote:
> Right now stalonetray overlaps my other windows. Is there some way to
> give trays a dedicated section at the top of the screen? I was reading
> online that something called "struts hints" are supposed to do that.
> Supposedly stalonetray supports these; however, it still ends up
> overlapping. Do I need to do some xmonad configuration to get it to
> recognize that stalone tray wants its own section of the screen?

XMonad.Config.Desktop, or at minimum XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks and maybe
XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops.

> The other issue I'm running into is that as I switch focus between
> windows using mod-j mod-k, stalonetray also receives focus. I'd rather
> focus skipped over stalonetray. Is there someway to tell xmonad to not
> focus a particular window with mod-j and mod-k?

Same issue.  Without dock and EWMH support, a tray is just an ordinary window.

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]    allbery.b at gmail.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]                kf8nh
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