Xterm in Maximized Mode

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Thu Mar 24 01:20:51 PDT 2011


On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ajay Jain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to start xterm in maximized mode. For example: xterm
> -maximized. Could you suggest me a way (either via command line or via
> Xdefaults or anything else)?
>
> There is a lot of discussion on Internet and none leads to a solution.
> I do not want to specify the geometry option, and then specify a large
> enough geometry. I just want it plain and simple - maximized. Does
> such an option exist?

A "-maximized" option was added in patch #240, in early 2009.
A quick check here shows it working.

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