Bizarre window snap at screen borders

[Doug]

On 10/24/2013 10:07 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:37:41PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> Frank Steinmetzger posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:34:58 +0200 as excerpted:
>>
>>> See how tastes differ. *I* found this a bad idea and it was among the
>>> things I always disable right after installation, because I wanted the
>>> window's [X] to be in the corner where it belongs so I can quickly reach
>>> it by mouse. It's the same reason for which I can't understand why
>>> people use top panels. But that's the user world -- to each his own, and
>>> the dev's can't accommodate everyone. The fact that they don't include
>>> (or, as you say, even remove) the option is sadly another story.
>>
>> Just noting the multi-monitor case, with monitors logically stacked and 
>> kwin set to maximize to a single monitor.  That's actually the case here, 
>> with the further condition that altho three monitors are logically 
>> stacked, only the bottom two are actually physically stacked due to space 
>> constraints (they're actually 42-inch TVs that stack to cover an entire 
>> wall, with the third logically stacked on top to preserve the logical 
>> rectangular desktop, but physically off to the side where I have room for 
>> it).
>>
>> In that case, a top panel covering essentially all of the top monitor,  
>> my "system status dashboard", graphing user/system/nice/wait CPU usage 
>> separately for six cores, app/buffer/cache memory, various system temps, 
>> voltage and power usage, and fan speeds, network usage, and listing top 
>> applications by memory and cpu usage, etc, along with last 20 or so syslog 
>> entries, all in a custom superkaramba theme, makes sense, particularly 
>> since that monitor is physically separated from the others even if it's 
>> logically stacked on top of them.
> 
> you godda admit, that’s an “exotic” setup. Anyways, I was more referring
> to the “typical“ single-monitor, single-desktop use case. Not having
> seriously worked with a multimonitor setup yet, I excluded that from my
> thought process. :o) Think for example *cough* Apple laptops or, heck,
> Gnome (not just 3 but also the default config in 2 and also in xfce4).
> 
>> ... [...] Instead, I don't care much about the defaults; I just want
>> to have the configurability to sanely setup a configuration I'm
>> comfortable with.
>>
>> And kde is renowned for that sort of flexible configurability, a big part 
>> of why I use it, for much the same "big part of" reason that I use both 
>> Gentoo and Linux in general -- the configurability.  Too bad in this case 
>> kde had it, but removed it! =:^(
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> 
> PS.: If you use KWin's align window function (which I set to Meta +
> left/right, inspired by Windows) to put a window either on one half or
> quarter of a screen, then the borders are not chopped.
> 

I don't remember what version of kde that started this problem. Please
remind me so I can (hopefully) prevent it from being upgraded.
--doug

-- 
Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides.
--A.M.Greeley
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