diff --git a/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp b/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp
index 27ac97a..dfa9adc 100644
--- a/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp
+++ b/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp
@@ -25,10 +25,26 @@ namespace
 		void		*window;
 		const char	*title;
 		Logical		withSize;
+		Logical		bare;		// frame stripped, per the file
 	};
 	LayoutWindow layoutWindows[maxLayoutWindows];
 	int layoutWindowCount = 0;
 
+	//---------------------------------------------------------------
+	// Take a window's frame off: no title bar, no border, nothing to
+	// drag it by. WS_SYSMENU stays - it draws nothing once the caption
+	// is gone, but without one DefWindowProc will not honour Alt+F4,
+	// and a bare window with no way to close it is a trap.
+	//---------------------------------------------------------------
+	void StripWindowFrame(HWND window)
+	{
+		LONG_PTR style = GetWindowLongPtrA(window, GWL_STYLE);
+		style &= ~(WS_CAPTION | WS_THICKFRAME | WS_MINIMIZEBOX |
+			WS_MAXIMIZEBOX | WS_BORDER | WS_DLGFRAME);
+		style |= WS_POPUP;
+		SetWindowLongPtrA(window, GWL_STYLE, style);
+	}
+
 	int LayoutMode()
 	{
 		static int mode = -1;
@@ -360,6 +376,7 @@ void
 	layoutWindows[layoutWindowCount].window = window;
 	layoutWindows[layoutWindowCount].title = title;
 	layoutWindows[layoutWindowCount].withSize = with_size;
+	layoutWindows[layoutWindowCount].bare = False;
 	++layoutWindowCount;
 }
 
@@ -435,6 +452,13 @@ void
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		//
+		// Optional trailing keyword, "x,y,w,h,noframe". Searched for
+		// rather than parsed in place so a hand-edited line survives a
+		// stray space or a missing comma.
+		//
+		Logical bare = (strstr(equals + 1, "noframe") != NULL) ? True : False;
+
 		for (int i = 0; i < layoutWindowCount; ++i)
 		{
 			LayoutWindow &entry = layoutWindows[i];
@@ -483,8 +507,31 @@ void
 				break;
 			}
 
+			//
+			// Frame off, if the line asked. A bare window's rect IS its
+			// client rect, so whatever client area it has now is the size
+			// to hand back - which also makes the round trip stable: once
+			// bare, what Save records is already the client.
+			//
+			entry.bare = bare;
+			if (bare)
+			{
+				if (!size_it)
+				{
+					RECT client;
+					if (GetClientRect(target, &client))
+					{
+						w = client.right;
+						h = client.bottom;
+						size_it = True;
+					}
+				}
+				StripWindowFrame(target);
+			}
+
 			SetWindowPos(target, NULL, x, y, w, h,
-				SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE | (size_it ? 0 : SWP_NOSIZE));
+				SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE |
+				(size_it ? 0 : SWP_NOSIZE) | (bare ? SWP_FRAMECHANGED : 0));
 			++restored;
 			break;
 		}
@@ -520,7 +567,10 @@ void
 		  "# finished drag and on exit; =load restores it.\n"
 		  "# <title>=<x>,<y>,<w>,<h>. The game window gets its size back too;\n"
 		  "# for the display panes the size is reference only, since theirs\n"
-		  "# follows their content.\n", file);
+		  "# follows their content.\n"
+		  "# Append ,noframe to take that window's title bar and border off.\n"
+		  "# Put it where you want it first - a bare window has nothing to\n"
+		  "# drag by, so its line stops changing once the frame is gone.\n", file);
 
 	int wrote = 0;
 	for (int i = 0; i < layoutWindowCount; ++i)
@@ -550,10 +600,13 @@ void
 			continue;
 		}
 		RECT bounds = placement.rcNormalPosition;
-		fprintf(file, "%s=%ld,%ld,%ld,%ld\n", entry.title,
+		// the flag is the player's instruction, not something measured off
+		// the window, so a rewrite has to carry it back out
+		fprintf(file, "%s=%ld,%ld,%ld,%ld%s\n", entry.title,
 			(long) bounds.left, (long) bounds.top,
 			(long) (bounds.right - bounds.left),
-			(long) (bounds.bottom - bounds.top));
+			(long) (bounds.bottom - bounds.top),
+			entry.bare ? ",noframe" : "");
 		++wrote;
 	}
 	fclose(file);
diff --git a/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.h b/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.h
index f605f26..27666cc 100644
--- a/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.h
+++ b/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.h
@@ -180,7 +180,14 @@ protected:
 //   save / adjust     restore, then rewrite on each finished drag and
 //                     on teardown - the round trip
 //
-// One "<title>=x,y,w,h" line per window.
+// One "<title>=x,y,w,h" line per window, plus an optional ",noframe"
+// that takes that window's title bar and border off - for a cockpit that
+// fills a monitor edge to edge without -fit's all-or-nothing, or an
+// exploded pane photographed without chrome. A bare window has nothing
+// to drag by, so place it first and add the flag after; Save carries the
+// flag back out, since it is an instruction rather than something
+// measured off the window. Windows are always built framed, so deleting
+// the flag is all it takes to get the frame back.
 //
 // Whether the size comes back depends on the window, which is why
 // Register takes it as a flag:
diff --git a/pack-dist.ps1 b/pack-dist.ps1
index fb46cbc..de9a1aa 100644
--- a/pack-dist.ps1
+++ b/pack-dist.ps1
@@ -178,6 +178,12 @@ L4MFDSPLIT=1
 # only: their size follows their content and their button banks, so an
 # old one is never restored over them. Arrange everything once with
 # save, then leave it on load.
+#
+# Each line in mfd_layout.cfg reads <title>=<x>,<y>,<w>,<h>, and you can
+# append ,noframe to take that window's title bar and border off - a
+# cockpit that fills the monitor edge to edge without -fit taking the
+# whole screen. Put the window where you want it first: a bare window
+# has nothing to drag by. Delete the flag to get the frame back.
 #RP412MFDLAYOUT=off
 
 # Size of the six secondary displays in the glass cockpit, as a