Fullscreen mode for X, without seeing next to current WM?

[Rob Arthan]

[Nick: oops! I forgot to do Reply All, so you’ll see this twice.]

I’m not quite sure why you started a new thread for this.

In any case, If you use X Quartz and select the Full Screen option in the Output tab in the settings, then you will achieve this. You may need to quit X Quartz and restart it, e.g., by running “xterm” or “xterm -fullscreen” and then maybe select the xterm from X Quartz’s Window menu.

Make a careful note of the key sequence you need to get out (it’s Command-Option-A).

You may be able to achieve the same effect with other window managers by tweaking configuration files. I haven’t looked into that.

Regards,

Rob.

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