Re: [xmonad] Avoiding multiple status bar processes after XMonad restart

Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 19:49, Jacek Generowicz wrote:

Also, I've still got the problem that the new xmobars don't play nicely with toggle struts.

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When I log in and xmonad starts up for the first time, toggle struts avoids the xmobar and dzen exactly as expected. After an XMonad restart, the newly spawned xmobars and dzens stay on top of any other windows, so when MXonad is not in avoid struts mode, the status bars cover up the top/bottom of the managed windows. If we hark back to the stage where every XMonad restart spawned a new status bar, but the old ones didn't die, I could manually kill all the new ones, leaving just the very first one, and then toggle struts behaviour was just fine, which shows that the problem was with the newly-spawned ones.