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Hello List!
I have a WS devoted to reading PDFs and alike and in my manageHook config stands the following:
, className =? "Evince" --> doFullFloat
This is, because I like my two xmobars (top and bottom) to disappear, when reading a paper such things. But: When evince is FullFloating I got problems when opening more than one instance of it, like a second paper. It just lets the first one disappear under the freshly opened one.
Probably the cleanest fix is to let that workspace run a non-avoidStruts layout, since avoidStruts is the thing making your windows avoid covering xmobar. (And then completely delete the hook that floats evince windows.) For example, a smallish starting config might look something like this: main = xmonad defaultConfig { layoutHook = avoidStruts (Full ||| Tall 1 0.5 0.03) } If you wanted to throw on another layout like Tall that covered up xmobar's, you'd do something like this: main = xmonad defaultConfig { layoutHook = avoidStruts (Full ||| Tall 1 0.5 0.03) ||| Tall 1 0.5 0.03 } Because of the parentheses, avoidStruts only applies to the first two layouts. Then, I'd switch my "PDF" workspace to the third layout by whacking mod+space a few times. (This can be automated, too, with a bit of effort. See PerWorkspaceLayouts in the xmonad-contrib documentation.) Good luck, ~d