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Asus EEE PC: Enable full screen

March 25, 2008 on 10:00 am | Tags: eee, fullscreen, hints | In General | 1 Comment

First thing with the eee pc was to find out how to enable full screen in IceWM. Full screen in the window manager results in maximized windows without decorations. Therefore one has a lot more space for the actual program (e.g. xterm or Thunderbird).

First of all you need to copy the icewm preferences to your home dir (open terminal with CTRL-ALT-t):

/home/user> mkdir ~/.icewm
/home/user> cp /etc/X11/icewm/preferences /home/user/.icewm

Then you need to edit those preferences, e.g. with kwrite.

/home/user> kwrite /home/user/.icewm/preferences

Search for ”AllowFullscreen” and remove the “#” at the beginning of the line. Check if it is set to “1″.

After restarting your IceWM (e.g. with CTRL-AL-BACKSPACE) you can make use of the fullscreen mode in all applications by hitting ALT-F11.