[xmonad] Xmobar covered by window on startup screen

[Chris Bell]

Thanks!! Adding docksEventHook seems to have worked. Thanks again!

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 06:30:14PM +0000, Anthony Brice wrote:
> 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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