Hi Guillaume, Excerpts from Guillaume Thouvenin's message of Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:40 +0200:
I'm new to xmonad and I observe a strange behaviour with the status bar. ..... I can see the status bar in a workspace when it is empty but when I start an application (xterm, firefox, ...) the application covers the status bar and therefore I can not see it. I tried to modify lowerOnStart = False but this hides the top of my application. I'm using xmonad 0.9.1-2 and xmobar 0.9.2-1 with ubuntu 10.04.
You should tell xmonad to not use the area of the status bar, The following is a quote from [1]: -----------------------------8<----------------------------- Wrap your layouts with avoidStruts from XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks for automatic dock/panel/trayer spacing: import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks main=do xmonad $ defaultConfig { ... , layoutHook=avoidStruts $ Tall ||| Wide ||| Full , manageHook=manageHook defaultConfig <+> manageDocks , ... } -----------------------------8<----------------------------- Cheers, Sergey [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad