On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:01:09 +0200 Robert Manea wrote:

I suppose you are using 'avoidStruts' to let xmonad know about the correct values for the dzen instances.

Yup.

If so, then your issue are actually 2 issues:

1. Dzen sets some properties that tell xmonad to set apart some screenspace for it. Xmonad seems to be fine with the dzen on top, the one at the very bottom should work just as well, without any further config, though.

2. The second issue is the way how dzen decides to set those properties. It does this by inspecting wether it touches either the top or bottom edge of the screen, and only sets strut information if this is actually the case.

This means a dzen that does not touch one of the screen borders will never be recognized by xmonad and get extra space.

I'm not sure if the latest xmonad release still contains code to manually set a gap, but this for sure would be the easiest way to solve your issue in a simple way.

I understand. I also thought of that solution, and I think the code is still there, but I haven't even tried, since that would be only a temporal workaround if the code is going to be deprecated soon. However, there were some other concerns. I thikn that conky was leaking memory or something. That and a few other annoyances made me switch. I now use a couple of gkrellms on the right side of one of my monitors to monitor a couple of boxes, and all is fine. I keep one dzen on the top for my windows, layouts and workspaces. So, after all I found a suitable solution for me. Thanks for the response. -- Jesús Guerrero