Full Screen Xterm Window?

[Nick]

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> On May 13, 2025, at 3:09 AM, Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I can confirm only xterm -fullscreen works for me on Darwin with quartz-wm.  It does not work with twm or mwm, and window stays the same size.

I was interested in full screen because it appears Mac Emacs has a full screen mode, which occupies the entire screen.