Bug#853870: xmonad taking up all display space in workspace 1 hiding xmobar

[Ilias Tsitsimpis]

Hi Colin,

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:31PM, Colin Gonzalez wrote:
> Using xmonad and xmobar in xmonad workspace 1 puts xmobar in
> background. When no program is running xmobar is visible, when program
> windows are open in workspace 1, they take up all the wrokspace no
> mather which layout, and makes it impossible to see and use xmobar.
> However, other workspaces work fine. Using several configuration files
> or none (default configurations) doesn't fix up the issue.

Have you tried setting the `overrideRedirect' option of xmobar to False,
as suggested in the documentation?

    http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar

    If you're running xmobar in a tiling window manager, you might need to
    set this option to False so that it behaves as a docked application.
    Defaults to True. 

Best,

-- 
Ilias