<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That’s exactly what I was looking for. xterm -fullscreen is fullscreen now like a terminal.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 13, 2025, at 2:55 PM, Rob Arthan <<a href="mailto:rda@lemma-one.com" class="">rda@lemma-one.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[Nick: oops! I forgot to do Reply All, so you’ll see this twice.]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I’m not quite sure why you started a new thread for this.<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">Make a careful note of the key sequence you need to get out (it’s Command-Option-A).<br class=""><br class="">You may be able to achieve the same effect with other window managers by tweaking configuration files. I haven’t looked into that.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Rob.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="" class="">On 13 May 2025, at 17:23, Nick via X11-users <<a href="mailto:x11-users@lists.apple.com" class="">x11-users@lists.apple.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Is there a way to launch X and use the entire display including background, not to be shared with Quartz WM and other UI windows?<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.<br class="">X11-users mailing list (<a href="mailto:X11-users@lists.apple.com" class="">X11-users@lists.apple.com</a>)<br class="">Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: <a href="https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/rda%40lemma-one.com" class="">https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/rda%40lemma-one.com</a><br class=""><br class="">This email sent to <a href="mailto:rda@lemma-one.com" class="">rda@lemma-one.com</a></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 May 2025, at 17:23, Nick via X11-users <<a href="mailto:x11-users@lists.apple.com" class="">x11-users@lists.apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Is there a way to launch X and use the entire display including background, not to be shared with Quartz WM and other UI windows?<br class=""> _______________________________________________<br class="">Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.<br class="">X11-users mailing list (<a href="mailto:X11-users@lists.apple.com" class="">X11-users@lists.apple.com</a>)<br class="">Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: <a href="https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/rda%40lemma-one.com" class="">https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/rda%40lemma-one.com</a><br class=""><br class="">This email sent to <a href="mailto:rda@lemma-one.com" class="">rda@lemma-one.com</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>