dons@cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes: [...]
clocks, status bars and so on, go in the per-screen `gap', an unmanged region of the screen, on any (or all) borders. xmonad will ignore clients in that area, that have override-redirect set on them.
Right, but that feels like losing a chunk of a screen for something that's only occasionally of value. I was thinking of having gkrellm (or something similar) always visible, but perhaps (adjustably) translucent, in which case it could just overlay normal windows. Hence the idea of something like a floating layer. Now I think of it, I think I was talking past David Roundy. I think he's talking about windows he wants to be in multiple workspaces in the sense that they participate in the workspace layouts. In this case, at least, I *don't* want the windows to affect layout (which is why I was thinking in terms of the floating stuff). However, quite possibly it's not worth the complexity. I'm sure a one line status bar with dzen will be sufficient. Or even a GNOME (or KDE) panel, I guess, since those can also hide themselves (so wouldn't need much permanent space---just few pixels). [...]