[xmonad] Multiple statusbars

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Alexis de BRUYN <
alexis.mailinglist at de-bruyn.fr> wrote:

> I am looking for a way to have two statusbars (xmobar or dzen), one at
> the top and the other one at the bottom of the screen, which could be
> always visible.
>
> I have tried some configs on the Xmonad/Config_archive and other from
> other sites, but actually I don't how to launch and set the second bar
> to be not hidden by the windows.
>

You do know about
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-ManageDocks.html ?

(Note that a common mistake here is to use avoidStruts in the layoutHook
but not manageDocks in the manageHook, or vice versa --- you need *both*
for it to work.)

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