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Fullscreen is a display mode in which a particular application occupies an entire screen, usually without any visible controls, title bars or other UI elements.

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How to hide all toolbars in Google Chrome without going full screen?

I would like to hide everything except the webpage content in Google Chrome. This means I want to hide tabs, omnibar, bookmarks bar and so on. I've found out that the Presentation Mode is quite nice ...
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how to force any application into fullscreen?

I couldn't find any solution to this, even though it should be the most obvious and easy thing to do. I basically just want to be able to force any program that can be switched to fullscreen with alt+...
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Is there a way to start the flash player (or program) in full screen through the shortcut target command?

I am trying to start flash on start up in full screen. Are there any commands that i can execute in the shortcuts target path to tell the program to start in full screen? (Not maximized) So something ...
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Prevent hiding the bar when fullscreen mode in i3

I am using i3wm, and often I want to focus on a certain window, so I might put it in fullscreen and exit it when I need to see the other windows. This is fast, however it makes the bar dissapear (I'm ...
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Force Exclusive Mode in VMware Workstation9?

Is there any way to force exclusive mode in vmware workstation 9? I hate always having to choose it in the toolbar.
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Multiple Windows Desktop areas for Full-Screen applications

Is it possible to run multiple instances of Windows Explorer within a single user session, or configure multiple desktops that are portions of a screen? I don't know the best way to describe what I ...
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Wrong chrome full screen resolution with multiple displays

I am using Google Chrome on Windows 7 64bit with two displays. The displays have different resolutions and aspect-ratios. My problem is best visible when playing back full-screen videos from a flash ...
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Override Chrome's new fullscreen API

Is there a way to disable the fullscreen API for Chrome, so that Youtube HTML5 videos maximize to the size of the tab, not the screen? I've got a really large screen and having the video at half the ...
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VirtualBox guest fullscreen picking up wrong monitor size

I am running Xubuntu 11.04 as a Host, with a Xubuntu 11.04 VirtualBox Guest OS. I have it set up so that when I put the Guest OS in full screen, it can detect the monitor settings and resizes. ...
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How do I start silverlight on netflix in full screen automatically?

I know that there this great big button that I can click for full screen on the bottom left of the screen. What I'm doing though is launching the direct movie/tv episode in chrome from XBMC using ...
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If I enlarge a streaming web video, it looks pixellated. When I fullscreen, it looks smooth. How can I force this smoothing filter always?

I want the same smoothing filter to be applied even when I don't fullscreen, at any scale. Windows 7 64bit, nvidia geforce 9500 GT. Firefox browser.
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Is there any way to split vertical monitor into two on Windows 10 and use fullscreen mode on videos?

I have a secondary monitor that I use in a vertical orientation. I would like to put one window in the upper half and another in the lower. I was able to achieve this by using PowerToys FancyZones but ...
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Full Screen - Libre Office Impress

I'm trying to select the fullscreen function in Libre Office Impress without enabling the slide function. I want to be able to type and edit my work without the title bar or time or turning on the ...
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How to make chromium remember window size and position (linux / gnome)?

When I start the chromium browser on Arch Linux with GNOME 3, it starts fullscreen. How can I achieve that chromium remembers window size and position? And is chromium or GNOME responsible for the ...
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How can you minimize full screen apps in OSX Yosemite?

I like keeping my windows full screen. However, when any application is full screen, the yellow button in the upper left becomes grey and is not clickable. How can I minimize the window without ...
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Launching Applications In Fullscreen From Terminal in OSX 10.9 Mavericks

It's my first venture into the world of tmux, and the end goal is an executable script that directly starts tmux (instead of launching Terminal and then starting up tmux from there) in fullscreen mode ...
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Flash is now full screen press ESC to exit

Really annoying "advice" while using flash software in full screen. Even when you have selected to allow full-screen this popup will occur. Kind of a drawback in presentation software. There is ...
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Prevent the taskbar appearing on top of full-screen applications without disabling scaling on high DPI settings on Windows 8

My new laptop has a 13.3" monitor. Stupidly, its only supported widescreen resolution is 1920x1080, which by default makes everything really difficult to read. This has ultimately forced me to ...
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mplayer over 2 screens

I recently found an mplayer command line example that plays a video over 2 screens (nvidia twinview) but I lost it somehow. So does anyone know how to play a video with mplayer and have it stretch ...
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"/fullscreen" argument does not work when launching Windows Media Player as part of a scheduled task with wake from sleep

I recently asked a question about using Windows 7 Task Scheduler to wake a computer from Sleep mode and play a video, Windows Task Scheduler to wake from sleep and play a video, and I got it to work, ...
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Open Hyper-V Linux VM Full Screen

I have a Centos 7 Linux VM running in Hyper-V. I have adjusted the kernel line to set it to the host's resolution of 1920x1080. This works well, in the sense that the VM opens in a window of that size....
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Firefox stays in browser full screen after minimizing the browser that had a full screen video open

Behavior on my Firefox: Go to youtube or any video website Click the full screen button on a video Minimize Firefox When maximizing Firefox, the previously full screen video is no longer full screen, ...
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How to set application to display to open on second monitor through Windows or 3rd party application?

So my main usecase is the following: I would like to see my tray icons, clock and notifications on my second monitor. For this I need my second monitor to be the "main" display in windows. (...
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Can we change Windows 10 behavior to be MacOS like?

I’m using Windows 10 but am more comfortable as a Mac User and I really miss some behaviors I’ve come to expect. I own a 32'' 4K monitor and now with Windows 10, my windows get maximized at full ...
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How to stretch/scale the view in VirtualBox fullscreen mode?

VirtualBox: 5.1.28 Host: Win 10, 1920x1080 Guest: Win XP, 800x600 A simple illustration of what I want: In "fullscreen" mode the whole screen is black and there is a small 800x600 viewport ...
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ESC Closes Both Fullscreen Windows On Firefox 79.0

I have 2 monitors. When I have a fullscreen stream on both of them, I'll usually default to using Esc to exit the fullscreen I'm watching (and which technically is the window in focus) but this ...
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Drag Mac OS full screen window out of full screen mode

Trying to get used to using Mac as my main workhorse. One annoying thing is window management and workflow between windows which of its many failings Windows seems to do better at generally moving ...
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How to type in Google Chrome's New Tab Page in Full Screen Mode

For me, Chrome's "new tab page" doesn't work in full screen mode, in the sense that my typing has no effect - the omnibox and the search box seem dead. Clicking on the omnibox to give it focus has no ...
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How do I figure out what's causing Focus Assist to turn on?

Windows has activated Focus Assist, thinking I have an application in full-screen mode. That is not obviously the case among any of the (many) applications I have open. How can I tell which ...
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How to forbid fullscreen for an X-Forwarded window

I am running an application via SSH and X-Forwarding. The application runs automatically in fullscreen mode which is very unhandy. Is there any way to run the remote application in a windowed mode ...
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How can a command prompt be opened fullscreen in Windows 10?

I have Microsoft Windows 10 version 1511 (OS Build 10586.679). How can I make the console window full-screen? (Same as what we did in Windows XP.) When I press Alt + Enter, the prompt This system does ...
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Why i3 desktop is not scaling to fullscreen in vmware?

I'm on opensuse 13.2, login manager is lxdm, window manager is i3. When i3 desktop started, the only use the center part of the screen as you see in the below screenshot. If I switch to gnome or lxde ...
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Minecraft crashes upon fullscreen

Both pressing F11 and turning on fullscreen in video settings closes the game and reopens the launcher. This happens in both modded and unmodded in all versions. It's apparently is happening outside ...
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4k Monitor fullscreen video playback in a pip window

I’m blessed with having a 43” 4k monitor at work, and as well, at home. I have both a MacBook Pro Retina and windows desktop computer hooked up to them. I love working on the monitors but I have one ...
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Show two full-screen applications on the same monitor

I've got Windows 7, two applications and one wide-screen monitor. The applications can work only in full-screen mode. But I need to vertically split the monitor so I can watch both applications at ...
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Run/Debug in Android studio on OSX in fullscreen mode always switch desktop

I am facing a rather frustrating behaviour when I'm running an android app or simple unit tests. I use Android Studio 1.3 in fullscreen mode on OSX 10.10.4 and every time I start the app or tests it ...
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Automatically scroll PDF

I want to set up a raspberry pi which should present PDF files at full screen, which should automatically scroll. I have no problem in setting up a script that identifies the files to be viewed. ...
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Youtube Progress bar will not go away in fullscreen mode

Started a few months ago, having trouble getting full-screen progress bar to recede after a few seconds, but now no matter what I do I cannot get it to go away. I've tried clicking on the black ...
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Full screen not available in vmplayer 6 (on Linux)

I recently updated vmware player from 5.0.2 to 6.0.0, and now the "full screen" menu item is always grayed out. It happens with all my VMs, regardless of the guest OS. "Enter Unity" is still available ...
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Fullscreen application over two monitors

I have a dual-head setup running Ubuntu 13.04 with Gnome/Unity (the default desktop). What I'm trying to achieve is to display Firefox in "fullscreen" mode (e.g. hit F11 after it is launched), and ...
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VLC is cropping my video for projector display

Context: What works: I'm trying to set up my VLC so that it displays through a projector. I set up my screen with two monitors, and set up VLC to have DirectX drawing to draw to the other screen. That ...
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Window style not applied to iTerm2 in Lion

I'm messing with my default profile in iTerm2 to see the difference between normal, fullscreen and top of screen windows. However, the window doesn't seem to change out of "normal" mode, even if the ...
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VMWare - Start guest in full screen (bat file or by configuration)

The question is simple, and the Title says it all. I want to launch my guest VM in full-screen with a bat file, or with a configuration setting (whatever possible). Tried some solution that I found ...
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Set an app to Full Screen mode, but keep windowed?

When an app is put into full screen mode you typically get rid of the navigation/menu bars, making more space available. But you lose the option to view other apps at the same time. Is there any way ...
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VMware: Automatically change Arch Linux textmode resolution

I have installed the most basic Arch Linux only with command line interface as guest OS on Windows using VMware. The problem is when I maximize the Vmware window, the Arch Linux console does not ...
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Why does DVD Player in OS X 10.5 "Leopard" exit full-screen mode during playback?

When playing a full screen movie with the built-in DVD Player in OS X 10.5 "Leopard", not with Front Row, the movie will occasionally exit fullscreen mode automatically. No message box has popped up, ...
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Metacity toggle fullscreen not working under Lucid; worked with Karmic

I'm working on a 11" screen, so I frequently want to use applications in fullscreen. I'm no expert on GNOME, but I remember doing a search a while back, and finding out about metacity, and how to use ...
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Setting to Stay in Fullscreen/Slideshow Mode of photoviewer on Delete of Image

In windows 7, I use Picasa Photo Viewer in fullscreen mode to cull photos. I can view them in full screen, nav with keyboard arrows and delete an image with del key (all while it stays fullscreen). ...
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Is it possible to show a window in "fullscreen mode" in a Windows 11 dock area?

Docking windows to Windows 11 dock areas works well, but the window remains in its normal state, showing the menu bar etc. Is it possible to activate the fullscreen mode (F11) of a window, by ...
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Disable Mouse Exit Edge Fullscreen when moved to top

I'm using Edge fullscreen and I'd like to disable the "Move mouse cursor to top" disable Edge fullscreen feature. Then the only way would be using the F11 key. I'm finding myself ...
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