Re: how could the mighty emacs lack --fullscreen ?

[Kevin Ryde]

eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:
>
> On 17 Dec 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
> > $ xli -fullscreen photo.jpg
> > whilst the mighty emacs is incapable?
> 
> If you can describe how to do that with all, or at least some, of the 
> toolkits and window managers supported by Emacs, someone here could write 
> the code to implement that.  For now, the Windows version can do that, 
> but the others cannot.

I guess the idea of maximized versus normal (when that idea exists) is
private to the window manager, but maybe it'd be possible to have
"--fullscreen" understood as just an initial size and position, not
unlike --geometry but with a calculated size.