Re: Real xterm fullscreen?
Re: Real xterm fullscreen?
- Subject: Re: Real xterm fullscreen?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:43:01 -0800
On Dec 14, 2010, at 08:23, Michael Parson wrote:
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> On Dec 11, 2010, at Dec 11, 2010 11:11 AM, David López Paz wrote:
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>> Dear users,
>>
>> I have been trying to make my X11-xterm fullscreen for a while now. By fullscreen, I mean that every single pixel of my screen
>> should be occupied by the terminal itself: no titlebar, no menubar, no resize corner. Just like unix tty's.
>>
>> The closest thing I got was to run X11 in fullscreen mode, and maximize the xterm window. However, the titlebar is still there.
>
> The limitation here is really the window manager that gets executed by default, namely quartzwm.
Why is that a limitation? quartz-wm has been supporting fullscreen mode (_NET_WM_ACTION_FULLSCREEN _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN) for quite some time now. You can use firefox or many media players to verify (like totem).
The problem here is that xterm doesn't support the fullscreen state. You should file an enhancement request with Thomas Dickey for that if you're interested. A quick google search turned up a patch to enable this (but it's based on an ancient version of xterm, so you may need to adjust the patch a bit):
http://www.davidsimmons.com/soft/xtermhacks/#fullscreen
http://www.davidsimmons.com/soft/xtermhacks/xterm-fullscreen.patch
If you want a turn-key solution, you can check out gnome-terminal which has fullscreen support. Install MacPorts, then 'sudo port -v install gnome-terminal'
> You need to do a couple of things to get a full-screen xterm. First, run X11 in full-screen mode (X11->Preferences->Output, checkbox in 'Full-screen mode'. Next, you need a window manager that doesn't have any decorations, or will let you customize them. Check out ratpoison, evilwm, or even fvwm with the proper options.
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