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Or you can just use Megazoomer which will make any Cocoa app fullscreen: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html Combi

• ruby_roo 18y ago
  I would pay dollars for something that could hide my OS X menu bar in the same way that I can hide the dock. An added benefit would be to hide all my desktop icons (which I right-align) until I move my mouse to the edge of the screen. Having tried a few isolation apps, I now wish more of that stuff was built into the OS itself.
  • Zev 18y ago
    Have you ever looked into Visor by Blacktree (Same folks that did Quicksilver)? http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-visor/ http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-visor/ - It allows you to show/hide a terminal with a key combo. Not the exact thing you want, but closer to it then any other plugin/app I know of.
  • alabut 18y ago
    I agree that the desktop is annoying, so that's why I forked out cash for Deskshade, from the makers of Espresso (a Coda competitor). A simple hotkey combo (for me it's command+return) triggers the show/hide. http://macrabbit.com/deskshade/ http://macrabbit.com/deskshade/ I'm a cheap bastard and it's one of the few pieces of software I've paid for, which also feels good because it's an indie developer. Totally worth it, I feel like I can breathe again with the desktop hidden.
• alabut 18y ago
  Ack - Megazoomer requires SIMBL and I've been burned by that in the past. The Wikipedia page says the problems are in the past but I'd still be hesitant to install it. I had some kind of app that dimmed the menu bar on command and had to install SIMBL in order to get it to work, which ended up being a bit of a nightmare after a few OS X updates.
  • joshu 18y ago
    Yeah, there's no way I'm touching SIMBL. I crave fullscreen Terminal.app
    • wheels 18y ago
      I've been using it for a year and not had any problems (but only with this one plugin). Could it be that there are plugins out there that are specifically crap? I regularly flip between full screen Emacs.app (with the elisp below) and then have a fullscreen, tabbed Terminal.app. Throw in Freedom.app and it's like canned productivity. (defun mac-toggle-max-window () (interactive) (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen (if (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen) nil 'fullboth))) (global-set-key [?\A-f] 'mac-toggle-max-window)
      • piranha 18y ago
        This function doesn't work for me. :-( I use Emacs.app compiled from CVS (maybe a week ago). Anything I need to get this working?
        • wheels 18y ago
          You might need this: (setq mac-command-modifier 'alt) My full ~/.emacs is here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/364670/wheels.emacs http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/364670/wheels.emacs
          • piranha 18y ago
            I use function by M-x, not a hotkey. ;-) So it's definitely not a problem. Looks like this happens because I've switched to Cocoa version of Emacs.
        • mark_h 18y ago
          I've been bitten by that (loved my fullscreen emacs). It only worked in the carbon version; CVS now uses cocoa as far as I know.
    • 18y ago