If you start up Racket.exe from the command-line and paste in these
two forms at the prompt:
(require racket/gui/base)
(send (new frame% [label ""]) show #t)
does the resulting window obey the commands?
If it doesn't, that means there is some low-level connection that's
not happening properly. I
This is not important, just a curiosity.
When I'm on a Windows platform, I use bugn, a tiling window manager, a
bit like xmonad. For some reason, DrRacket pays no attention to bugn's
directives to change size, monitor, decoration.
I'm more happy though that I can use DrRacket to get my work done