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by o11c 806 days ago
> I sometimes delete WM_NORMAL_HINTS if a window has size hints set where I can't resize it the way I want.

With kwin it's easy to manually override an application/window to ignore geometry constraints or whatever. I do this for xterm to avoid having a few pixels of background showing at the edge when maximized.

I also used to do this a lot to get the much-nicer "soft fullscreen" in SDL1 applications.