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I'm stuck on KDE 3.1.4 and can't upgrade to KDE 3.2 because of new "feature" added to KDE 3.2. I am now no longer able to position the top of a window off the top edge of the screen. I'd like to be able to do this again -- any idea how I do this?

Why on earth would I need to do such a thing? Well, here's why:

At work the standard desktop OS is Windows. Several applications I have to run on a daily basis are windows only, and don't run under wine. So, I HAVE to run windows SOMEWHERE. However, I like Linux a lot better. The company won't buy me a second computer, and dual-boot is poor compromise. So, I run windows inside vmware. However, I also run dual monitors, and vmware doesn't do full screen when xinerama (multi-mointor) is enabled in the X server. Actually, I don't want full screen, I want single monitor full-screen. How I approximate this is as follows:

I run windows at the same resolution as one of the two monitors under linux. Then, I position the vmware window so that Windows takes up exactly one monitor. This puts the title bar and the vmware application bar off the top of the screen. The window borders on the right and bottom sides are off the screen, and the only artifact left of the vmware window is a two-pixel wide border on the edge shared between the right and left monitors.

This gives me the ability to run windows and linux literally side by side, and all I have to do is drag my mouse from one to other to switch between the windows and linux worlds. This is *really* nice. However, I can't do this in KDE 3.2, because kwin doesn't let me position the top of the vmware window off the top of the screen. This is *really* annoying.

Borderless doesn't work, either, since that only gets rid of the title bar and border -- the vmware menu bar is still there, and there's no option to turn it off.

Anybody know how to turn this "feature" off in KDE 3.2??? (or if any developers are reading this -- can you pull this feature out, or at least give us an option to turn it off?)

Another note on borderless windows in KDE 3.2: While it doesn't fix my vmware problem, this is otherwise a cool feature. However, I see a major problem with it. The only way to turn the border back on is with the ALT+F3 key sequence. However, if you are running a kde session inside vnc, or you are using an application (like vmware) that intercepts keyboard sequences, you can't issue an ALT+F3, and there is NO WAY to get the borders back. If only you could right-click the button in the taskbar (K panel) and get the same options that you get when you right-click the title bar, this wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for any assistance.

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