On 2013-10-10 01:11, Ben Boeckel wrote:

On Wed, 02 Oct, 2013 at 02:30:26 GMT, Daniel Wagner wrote:

For what it's worth, I've been seeing this too. What's more, it's even
more specific than "first boot": it's also only a problem on the first
workspace! Very strange. I've no idea what's causing it.

Could it be that xmonad only checks for struts when something changes
and doesn't get notified on their creation?

I know the behavior you're talking about: sometimes, xmonad seems to have "lost" the fact that xmobar appears. But just about anything fixes it: opening a new window, switching workspaces, hitting xmonad's "redraw" key -- anything that causes the layout to be recomputed clears the problem.

In addition, for what it's worth, I have two monitors. I run xmobar on each monitor, and trayer only on one monitor. On the first workspace for each monitor, the space left open for struts is wrong -- and in different ways on the two monitors.