positioning stacks off screen in Linux

[Warren Samples]

On 07/12/2013 12:00 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> One of the commonly suggested methods of hiding stacks is setting their
> location to something that places them out of the view window. This is
> not working correctly here under openSUSE/KDE/KWin. A stack's location
> is constrained to the available viewport unless it has been previously
> dragged and placed so that some part of it past the screen edge. Once
> that is done, a stack can be positioned anywhere outside the viewport
> until it is completely within it and we return to our original problem.
> In order for any part of a stack to be positioned outside the viewport,
> some part of it must already appear beyond a screen edge.
>
> This does not happen under Windows. Do users of other Linux
> distros/DEs/window managers find this same behavior?
>
> Warren
>

Trying this is Mint 9 in VirtualBox is even worse. Stacks cannot be 
moved completely out of view no matter what I try.

Anyone else?