k.kosciuszkiewicz:

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

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Got a screenshot?

Sure.

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[...] Yes, you'd need the trayer to have the override bit set.

You're probably right, but I've solved it my way - I just mapped a key to "withFocused unmanage" in xmonad and voila :)

On the topic of setting the override-redirect flag, Stefan noted that a few X apps already let us set that via X resources. I added this to the FAQ on the webpage: xmonad let's you use any application as a 'statusbar', as long as it is visible in a given 'gap' on the screen, and has the override-redirect property set to true. Many status bar/dock programs already set this property, for example, dzen or kicker. To set other applications, you can sometimes use normal X resources For example, to use xclock, launch it with xclock -digital -xrm '*overrideRedirect: True' -geometry 1024x30+0+0 And set a gap of (30,0,0,0) in Config.hs. Spencer also uploaded a screenshot of using the KDE kicker as a statusbar (!) http://xmonad.org/images/screen-sjanssen-kde-kicker.png Any other thoughts on useful status bar programs, anyone? -- Don