Re: [xmonad] Using gkrellm as a dock/bar?

Excerpts from Mike Meyer's message of Tue Nov 22 22:56:49 -0700 2011:

I'm trying to use gkrellm (because I've already got the configured the way I want them) as a status bar with XMonad. I read the faq, tweaked my xmonad.hs (a modified copy of the original, attached) and set the dock_type to 1 (which can be done with a config option in recent versions of gkrellm).

Doesn't work. gkrellm stays in floating space, and the windows don't shrink to allow it any space. I did try xmobar, and that worked as expected.

For posterity: in off-list email we found that the current version of gkrellm doesn't set struts. Setting a static gap with X.Layout.Gaps solved the problem. -- wmw