Comments > On May 13, 2025, at 3:09 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 May 2025 02:08:49 -0400 Atod Notbora <atod101...@gmail.com> said: > >> When using XQuartz on MacOS is there a way to make an xterm window >> completely full screen, without the top title bar or dock below? Like a >> terminal? >> >> At the moment, it appears my XQuartz session uses an Aqua style >> WM. I'm wondering if that has something to do with the full screen >> mode. I also enter full screen by right clicking on Xterm and clicking >> on full screen. > > that menu request the window manager make the window fullscreen. how this is > handled is a policy of the window manager. it's a request - the wm can do > whatever it sees fit in this case (including ignoring the request). > > in your case this is quartz-wm (window manager) deciding that and this is > something provide by apple, so you likely should ask them as apple ship this > as > a binary on their systems i assume. their policy is to not allow the window to > be properly "filling the whole screen with nothing on top" and you'd need > apple > to change that policy if you want this widely to be the case, or replace > quartz-wm with a modified version of your own. >
I can confirm only xterm -fullscreen works for me on Darwin with quartz-wm. It does not work with twm or mwm, and window stays the same size. I was interested in full screen because it appears Mac Emacs has a full screen mode, which occupies the entire screen.
