That's not full screen...clicking the "maximize" icon simply maximizes the window. Most web browsers since the 90s, many games, and many other applications, use F11 across platforms as the "fullscreen" option, it's actually rather surprising you haven't seen that in use elsewhere. It doesn't matter whether you're using Firefox or Chrome, Windows or Linux, F11 is fullscreen, and the "traditional little box" is maximize, as is dragging your window to the top of the screen. If you're interested, there are many websites that list the available keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+shift+t is one of my favorites, the "resurrect tab" shortcut for when I accidentally close a tab in a browser and I didn't mean to), one fairly comprehensive list is on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts#Window_management Pleasantly, Ronald Bynoe On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > I must be dense. The keyboard shortcuts list is very useful, but the > behavior I see is still a mystery. > > For one, I am using chrome, not firefox. > > If I press F11, I get a full screen lacking any icons of use--no > hamburger. If I click on the traditional little box (between the - and the > X) to choose full screen, the menu bar remains. If I drag the window to > the top of the screen I get full screen with the menu bar still present, so > I can exit full screen using the little box. How I got to the situation > which prompted this entire exchange is a mystery--I cannot imagine that I > inadvertently hit F11. After I send this email I will try to duplicate the > mystery situation--maybe it only happens when only one tab is present. BTW, > dragging the menu bar to the top of the screen to produce full screen is a > feature of the system, not just the browser. It happens with all windows I > have tried. > > -Denis > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:27 PM, King Beowulf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 06/15/2016 04:34 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > Thanks. That does it. Toggles between full screen and not. Is that a > > > "everybody knows" thing? What else does everybody know? I want to be > in > > > the know. > > > > > > -Denis > > > > > > > No such thing as "everybody knows." As in all things, a bit of research > > is all it takes to gain knowledge. Like we used to say in my academic > > days: "If we knew the answer, we wouldn't call it 'research'." > > > > In Firefox, you can turn the "classic" menu on/off via instruction here: > > > > > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-to-the-file-edit-and-view-menus > > > > A proper menu rocks. That stupid 3-line icon is for tablets. bah. > > > > F11 has been around since before Firefox. Seamonkey, Mozilla, > > Netscape...etc...Heck, I think NCSA Mosaic and then Netscape invented > > most of them. Newer browsers just stole...er...reused the old code. > > > > F5 reload current tab > > ctrl-/ctrl+ to decrease/increase font size > > ctrl-tab to switch tabs > > > > There's more here: > > > > > > > http://www.howtogeek.com/114518/47-keyboard-shortcuts-that-work-in-all-web-browsers/ > > > > (some of these may not work as intended since the article was written. > > YMMV). > > > > Enjoy, > > Ed > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
