
I apparently have unusual usage patterns when it comes to multiple monitors, and it's causing problems for xmonad (and other WMs too, but Xmonad is the one I care about..). I frequently change the arrangement, orientation, and number of monitors on my system (it's a laptop that I dock 5-6x/day, and I alternate between sitting/standing at my desk, and I also just like rotating an external 19" lcd depending on the task at hand.). The problem I have is that I haven't found any status-bar like programs (eg: xmobar, taffybar) that will keep up with the screen adjustments I do. (gnome-panel worked, but it's apparently being phased out, and I'm not particularly happy with gnome dependencies anyway.) I usually end up with a status bar that's offset into the middle of the screen after a rotation / addition (taffybar) or, with xmobar, the bar eventually disappears entirely. I think I can probably fix things by tweaking taffybar/xmobar to respond to resize commands from xmonad, but I don't know how to detect the screen geometry changes within my xmonad source. This looks like the right module to start with: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/X11/Graphics-X11-Xlib-Extras.html#t%3AEvent but I haven't been enlightened by any of the Event values, and I don't know enough to tell if there are event types missing (eg: XRRScreenChangeNotify, maybe?) or if I just don't know how to interpret the xmonad module/types. Does anyone have suggestions? Thanks! Rogan