Here is a patch which fixes the problem.
Don't know about any drawback, as far as I tested - everything was OK.
Apply like this:
cd vim72/src
patch -p0 < bottom_line_fix.patch
2009/7/24 hell.director <[email protected]>:
> White blank line of 1px height appears at the bottom of the window.
> Resizing window and all other tricks like that have no effect.
>
> Here's a screenshot:
> http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4134/gvim.png
>
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--- gui_gtk_x11_old.c 2009-07-26 00:29:27.000000000 +0300
+++ gui_gtk_x11.c 2009-07-26 00:33:51.000000000 +0300
@@ -2999,6 +2999,11 @@
height += get_item_dimensions(gui.tabline, GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL);
#endif
+ /* FIXME: A hack which solves an issue with a blank line
+ * of 1px height at the bottom of the window.
+ */
+ height -= 1;
+
return height;
}