[xmonad] Can avoidStruts stop working?

[Peter Jones]

Unfortunately this is a known bug in xmonad-contrib v0.12:

    https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/15

If you are building from source just use git master.

We really need to make another release.

Jan Christoph Uhde <linux at obiwahn.org>
writes:
> I experience the same issues as in:
>
> https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2016-March/015047.html
>
> avoidStruts works for me in 0.11.1 (not compatible with the newest ghc
> 8.x.y in debian sid). In version 0.12 (cabal-default) it does not work
> on the first workspace, but starts working after pressing
> (mod-shift-space). In current git version xmonad
> (8b055621e92e7ade127043e968f50713c15a00a0) / xmonad-contrib
> (ec5f9a9e59ed5fa6bbd4c3850e4025526155f86e) my xmobar is never visible as
> soon as there is any other window.
>
> I have tried to work with sanboxes and different ghc versions but it is
> all very painful as I have to cd
> into the correct sandbox and even then xmonad must use
> a certain ghc version on startup when it compiles it's
> configuration.
>
> Please let me know how I can help debugging the problem. I know a bit
> programming and a few haskell basics. So please give me enough details
> to be helpful. You will find me as obiwahn in #xmonad.

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