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Does Windows even have something akin to the full screen mode that is provided in Lion/Mountain Lion? Because as a long time Windows user and recent Mac switche

Does Windows even have something akin to the full screen mode that is provided in Lion/Mountain Lion? Because as a long time Windows user and recent Mac switcher I am not familiar with it. On the Mac you can run multiple windows and have them all maximised to take up the maximum amount of screen real estate + applicable chrome.

sk5t 14y ago
Some Windows apps have supported this via F11 for a very long time (ten years at least?).
- X-Istence 14y ago
  So it is not an OS wide feature like Mac OS X where implementing it is fairly simple (at least from my experience). Some apps like VLC have supported full screen for years, even before this feature was brought to Mac OS X itself. So I wouldn't say that Windows has something akin to what is available to on Mac OS X.
tikhonj 14y ago
Windows might not, but KDE certainly does. It lets you make any window full screen, which gets rid of the borders and makes it take up the whole screen (whichever one it happens to be on). Moreover, it also lets different programs customize their full-screen behavior: for example, Chrome and the Dragon Video Player both have their own full-screen modes. And this still lets you use all of your screens. It's great.
- X-Istence 14y ago
  Xmonad or others do the same. The open source window managers have always had advanced features that would confuse a lot of people.
  - tikhonj 14y ago
    I could see something like XMonad confusing people just because it's so different. But KDE? Not so much. It's designed to be elegant and easy to use, and I think it's fairly successful. It's actually rather easy to go from Windows to KDE--even easier than Windows to OS X, I think. (Admittedly, this is in large part because KDE is similar to Windows in a lot of ways.) Also, full screen isn't a confusing feature :P. And, of course, Apple is just as happy to confuse people as anybody else--it seems half their users are vague on what exactly the green button does!

sk5t 14y ago

Some Windows apps have supported this via F11 for a very long time (ten years at least?).

X-Istence 14y ago
So it is not an OS wide feature like Mac OS X where implementing it is fairly simple (at least from my experience). Some apps like VLC have supported full screen for years, even before this feature was brought to Mac OS X itself. So I wouldn't say that Windows has something akin to what is available to on Mac OS X.

tikhonj 14y ago

Windows might not, but KDE certainly does. It lets you make any window full screen, which gets rid of the borders and makes it take up the whole screen (whichever one it happens to be on). Moreover, it also lets different programs customize their full-screen behavior: for example, Chrome and the Dragon Video Player both have their own full-screen modes. And this still lets you use all of your screens. It's great.

X-Istence 14y ago
Xmonad or others do the same. The open source window managers have always had advanced features that would confuse a lot of people.
- tikhonj 14y ago
  I could see something like XMonad confusing people just because it's so different. But KDE? Not so much. It's designed to be elegant and easy to use, and I think it's fairly successful. It's actually rather easy to go from Windows to KDE--even easier than Windows to OS X, I think. (Admittedly, this is in large part because KDE is similar to Windows in a lot of ways.) Also, full screen isn't a confusing feature :P. And, of course, Apple is just as happy to confuse people as anybody else--it seems half their users are vague on what exactly the green button does!