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Create a full-screen Terminal window
Authored by: chris_on_hints on Jul 01, '05 12:19:25PM

Could you install X11 and set up a really simple window manager to run full screen? If you can use Terminal.app in place of Finder.app when you log in, why not use X11.app, which can be set to run full screen...

... if you install fink (fink.sourceforge.net) you can get a nice range of windowmanagers:

evilwm - which lets you have windows with a single pixel border. that pure enough for you?
http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/

also, icewm and windowmaker are nice and can be made to be very minimal... oh, and you get a wide choice of xterms to play with (aterm, eterm etc).

- one advantage of this method is that it would let you remain logged in to your aqua account and you can assign any hotkey to switch between aqua and X11



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Create a full-screen Terminal window
Authored by: adrianm on Jul 01, '05 02:37:28PM

What do you want a window manager for?
just script an xterm to run full screen and switch to full screen with opt+cmd+A.

Or if you are that desperate for purism, boot to single user mode :-)



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