On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Damian Philipp <damian.philipp@gmx.net> wrote:

When I start xfce using xfwm4 and then run "xmonad --replace" from a
terminal, I practically arrive at my dream desktop. However, when I
configure xfce to autostart xmonad, I can briefly see the xfce4 panel
flash up and then immediately disappear. xmonad just leaves an empty
space where the panel is supposed to be. mod-b toggles the empty space
but does not show the panel. The default configuraiton of Lubuntu is to
have a single panel at the top of the screen.

Are you running anything else that isn't part of a standard XFCE4 session?

This *may* relate to a recently fixed bug (not in a released version yet, you need to build from darcs) where we were not registering the work area and therefore desktops (Thunar in your case) will use space allocated to panels; which one "wins" and is displayed depends on the start order, which in your case means Thunar is displaying on top of xfce4-panel. If you start with xfwm4 and then replace wiith xmonad, Thunar will use xfwm4's _NET_WORKAREA; your version of xmonad won't set _NET_WORKAREA and either xfwm4 doesn't remove its when it exits (arguably this is a bug in xfwm4) or Thunar doesn't detect it doing so (bug in Thunar in this case), so things continue to work "by accident".

xmonad from darcs has code to set _NET_WORKAREA. I'm not convinced that it is working 100% correctly, but this problem at least is not happening in my xfce4+xmonad configs.

brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates

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