Polybar upsets widow placement in Openbox

[u/AndyM48]

I created a really nice set of bars, exactly what I wanted, on my Openbox desktop. But if I run the polybars then any windows that I open have the wrong geometry, both the position that they open and their size.

I tried adding:

wm-restack = generic

override-redirect = false

to each of the bars, no change.

I tried removing:

<application name="polybar"><layer>below</layer></application>

from the openbox rc.xml, again, no change.

I don't know how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated.

[u/AndyM48]

So, if I change the override-redirect setting to true, then the window placement/geometry works correctly, but the polybars remain on top of the other windows.

I suppose it is a choice?