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12 years ago Sorry for taking a while to get back to you on this. The issue here is the same as with xterm: xterm (and gVim) always try size themselves to display only whole lines.
nwm will resize the window correctly when it applies the layout, but gVim/xterm will then resize it again to match the number of lines it can display, which is why it ends up being short. The Arch wiki has some suggestions for a workaround, but basically this is a known issue that affects most tiling window managers and that can at best be made to look less ugly:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vim#Empty_space_at_the_bottom_of_gvim_windows
First, thanks for this awesome project! It's simple and makes me smile.
I notice that when I start gVim it does not use the full client area. gVim is short by 1 or 2 lines. The workaround is to hit Super+Tab then it will resize correctly.