[xmonad] Remove outside borders from windows

[Brent Yorgey]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:30:52PM -0400, wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wrote:
> Quoting Zach Hirsch <zhirsch at umich.edu>:
> 
> >be due to the window borders; using NoBorders fixes this, but it
> >also removes the borders _between_ windows, which I don't want.
> >Is there some way to remove just the outside borders?
> 
> There currently is not. xmonad ships out to X11 for drawing borders,
> and the borders you can ask X11 to draw are quite rudimentary. If you
> want to implement this, you have basically two choices:

Might there be some way to trick xmonad into thinking that the screen
is slightly larger (e.g. two pixels taller) than it actually is?  I
haven't actually looked into it, it just occurred to me as a (crazy?)
possibility...

-Brent