On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:34:27PM +0100, Ralph Hofmann wrote:
I use xmonad and Gnome and I would like to use a gnome-panel with autohiding. But with autohiding the gnome-panel stays always behind the windows and can't be accessed. A google search only showed me a rather old bug report. I've tried avoidStruts from XMonad-Hooks-ManageDocks, but it didn't help.
Is there a solution?
Yes, while searching something similar to setup an environnement for my girlfriend I had found the following in the mailing list archive but I didn't wrote down the original author name, sorry... In ManageDocks.hs go to line 128 and substitute : struts <- (filter careAbout . concat) `fmap` mapM getStrut wins -- we grab the window attributes of the root window rather than checking -- the width of the screen because xlib caches this info and it tends to -- be incorrect after RAndR wa <- io $ getWindowAttributes dpy rootw let screen = r2c $ Rectangle (fi $ wa_x wa) (fi $ wa_y wa) (fi $ wa_width wa) (fi $ wa_height wa) return $ \r -> c2r $ foldr (reduce screen) (r2c r) struts where careAbout (s,_,_,_) = s `S.member` ss with : (strutWins,struts) <- do stss <- mapM getStrut wins let (ws, s) = unzip [ (w,st) | (w,sts) <- zip wins stss, st <- sts, careAbout st ] return (unique ws, unique s) -- move all the struts to the top of X's stacking order. sequence_ $ map (\w -> io $ raiseWindow dpy w) strutWins -- we grab the window attributes of the root window rather than checking -- the width of the screen because xlib caches this info and it tends to -- be incorrect after RAndR wa <- io $ getWindowAttributes dpy rootw let screen = r2c $ Rectangle (fi $ wa_x wa) (fi $ wa_y wa) (fi $ wa_width wa) (fi $ wa_height wa) return $ \r -> c2r $ foldr (reduce screen) (r2c r) struts where careAbout (s,_,_,_) = s `S.member` ss unique [] = [] unique (x:xs) = x : unique (filter (/=x) xs) and then rebuild your librairies. It was advised it could break something else in the config but i don't remember what. I hope it will help anyway.