My KDE4 solution was to set noborder and forced size and position plus a ignore requested geometry flag. KDE4 lets you specify these flags by windows class, wi

My KDE4 solution was to set noborder and forced size and position plus a ignore requested geometry flag. KDE4 lets you specify these flags by windows class, window application, etc. It's right there in the KDE4 context menu on windows. The other solution that I actually use was switch to awesomeWM (any other tiling WM works), this makes a lot of sense for coding since you no longer have window clutter.