I think we can conclude that is not a wxWidgets or Tk problem, it has to be on a higher level.

On my box, GNU/Linux with X and KDE4, if I run the next command and click on the desktop the result is the same.

  xwininfo | grep geometry
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Gives:

  -geometry 1920x1080+0+0
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Update: ... lower level ... :)