[xmonad] Xmobar covered by window on startup screen

[Anthony Brice]

Hi Chris,

Have you seen this post <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206890>
in the Arch forums? The code in masterdisaster's second post fixed my
problem when Xmobar was always covered by the first window I opened.

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:16 AM Chris Bell <cwbell at narmos.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been running into an interesting problem lately. I use a very basic
> xmonad/xmobar setup (system info below); not much more than the sample
> plus some hotkeys.
> Recently, when I start xmonad (either with startx or MOD+q) xmobar is
> covered by any windows, as if I did not have manageDocks in my
> manageHook function. However, it only does this on the screen/desktop
> that is active when xmonad is (re)started.
>
> So, when I first start xmonad on a single-screen machine, workspace 1
> (the default startup workspace) will show this issue, but none of the
> other workspaces will. I can 'fix' this by changing to workspace 9
> (which I rarely use), and restarting xmonad with MOD+q. Then, on
> workspace 9, windows will cover xmobar, but not on 1-8.
>
> On multi-screen desktops, this occurs with ALL initial workspaces - on
> my 4-screen desktop, on startup, windows will cover xmobar on workspaces
> 1-4, but not 5-9 (until I switch to 6-9 and restart xmonad).
>
> I have been experiencing this problem for a few months now, but haven't
> mentioned it because the "workaround" does the job, as long as I have
> enough unused workspaces. I'd really like to figure out what I broke or
> what I need to change...
>
> System Info
> OS: Arch Linux (64-bit, of course)
> xmonad: v0.12
> xmobar: v0.23.1
>
> Xmonad configuration (xmonad.hs): http://pastebin.com/HWhCqYsi
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
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