gvim starts slightly off-screen

[Andrew Conkling]

Some time ago (probably on Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:40:35 +0200)
Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> had occasion to say the following:

> Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > I'm having some trouble with gvim.  If I have a window open at the
> > top of the screen (often a terminal), xfwm4 opens gvim at the
> > bottom, but it opens around 5 pixels off-screen.  Where might the
> > problem lie?  I wouldn't really be complaining about this except
> > that it's vim, so the bottom line is rather important. :-)
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I have this too. I think it has always been there, hasn't it? I 
> had discarded it as a bug in gvim ;-)
> 
> There are several other programs that map an initial window and than 
> resize as the contents are filled in (emacs, eog) This sounds nice, 
> except xfwm4 is fast enough to place and decorate the initial window,
> so after resizing the window may no longer fit the screen.
> 
> Don't know if it's possible to prevent this, but I don't really think
> so.

Shoot, why is xfwm4 so fast?!  Blast it, devs!! :-P