overlapping screens

I recently bought a screen, and funnily enough, this shiny new thing is not sufficiently tall to be placed just behind my laptop screen without overlapping.

The bottom centimeter of the screen is behind the laptop screen.

And this is a huge problem because emacs' minibuffer is what is hidden.

But luckily, ratpoison has this option called "padding".

set padding 0 0 0 50

Maybe it's clearer with a picture.

So this is my stupid trick of the day.

Yes, books would work too.