Excerpts from Ones Self's message of Mon Jan 11 15:46:43 -0700 2010:

I'm using avoidStruts to leave the Gnome status bar uncovered, but I have one workspace, used for watching movies, that I would like the window to cover the bar. I'm currently using a key combo to toggleStruts, but I would like that workspace to just have that set always.

One way would be to use PerWorkspace layouts. Say your current layoutHook is something like myLayout = avoidStruts $ foo ||| bar ||| .... and you want only Full ||| Grid on the movie workspace: import XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace -- skipped , layoutHook = onWorkspace "vid" (Full ||| Grid) myLayout -- skipped would give you no statusBars on the "vid" workspace, defaulting to Full layout, toggling with Grid, then use myLayout for all other workspaces. If you sometimes want to toggle on the status bars even on "vid" that's doable to, but I'm thinking this will probably meet your needs as is. regards, -- wmw