Full Screen Xterm Window?

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Tue, 13 May 2025 02:08:49 -0400 Atod Notbora <atod101101 at gmail.com> said:

> When using XQuartz on MacOS is there a way to make an xterm window
> completely full screen, without the top title bar or dock below?  Like a
> terminal?
> 
> At the moment, it appears my XQuartz session uses an Aqua style
> WM.  I'm wondering if that has something to do with the full screen
> mode.  I also enter full screen by right clicking on Xterm and clicking
> on full screen.

that menu request the window manager make the window fullscreen. how this is
handled is a policy of the window manager. it's a request - the wm can do
whatever it sees fit in this case (including ignoring the request).

in your case this is quartz-wm (window manager) deciding that and this is
something provide by apple, so you likely should ask them as apple ship this as
a binary on their systems i assume. their policy is to not allow the window to
be properly "filling the whole screen with nothing on top" and you'd need apple
to change that policy if you want this widely to be the case, or replace
quartz-wm with a modified version of your own.

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