[xmonad] Xmobar covered by window on startup screen

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Chris Bell <cwbell at narmos.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

If you are running 0.12 then this is at least partly the strut caching bug;
downgrade to 0.11 or upgrade to git HEAD.
For xmonad-contrib HEAD, docksEventHook is no longer optional (as of 0.12
release) and there is a docksStartupHook that is also required (this is not
in 0.12).

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