[xmonad] Workspace Switching Woes

[Sacha Sokoloski]

Hello,

I've got a fairly specific issue which I've seen for example here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13498979/remove-border-from-fullscreen-floating-windows-only-xmonad-configuration

but I haven't found any solutions.

Essentially, I'm using the compton compositor to, amongst other things, 
fade in and out of windows. I also use smartBorders and smartSpacing to 
hide the spacing and the borders on singleton windows. The problem is 
that If I begin from a singleton window, then when I switch workspaces, 
these 'smart' modifiers no longer detect the singleton window as a 
singleton, and so redraw the border and spacing before the window has 
faded. Thus, at the beginning of the fade, the singleton window jumps a 
few pixes as the border and spacing are applied. This may sound very 
particular, but it's actually fairly jarring to see, and I'm not able to 
use smartBorders and smartSpacing in combination with this.

Has anyone perhaps solved this problem or could point in the direction 
of a solution?

Thanks for any help,

  - Sacha Sokoloski