Press F11 to Make the Current Tab Go Fullscreen #5158

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opened 2026-01-31 00:06:29 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @ShiromMakkad on GitHub (Nov 24, 2019).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

A lot of windows applications use F11 to go fullscreen. Try it on your browser, it will probably work. In many cases, I just want to use a single terminal tab in full screen, so I can run tmux inside it. Being able to go fullscreen gives me just a bit more screen area that is really helpful.

I saw #2577, but that only involves opening full screen on startup. This was merged into #1043 which is setting an initial position for the terminal, but that doesn't really encompass having a button to open a window in fullscreen.

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The user should be able to press F11 and the current tab will go fullscreen. If F11 is taken, CTRL+F11 or CTRL+SHIFT+F11 is a good pattern to use because it aligns with the opening and closing of tabs shortcuts. Also, ALT+ENTER would be a good key combination because it works on both CMD and Powershell. F11 only works on CMD

Originally created by @ShiromMakkad on GitHub (Nov 24, 2019). # Description of the new feature/enhancement A lot of windows applications use F11 to go fullscreen. Try it on your browser, it will probably work. In many cases, I just want to use a single terminal tab in full screen, so I can run tmux inside it. Being able to go fullscreen gives me just a bit more screen area that is really helpful. I saw #2577, but that only involves opening full screen on startup. This was merged into #1043 which is setting an initial position for the terminal, but that doesn't really encompass having a button to open a window in fullscreen. # Proposed technical implementation details (optional) The user should be able to press F11 and the current tab will go fullscreen. If F11 is taken, CTRL+F11 or CTRL+SHIFT+F11 is a good pattern to use because it aligns with the opening and closing of tabs shortcuts. Also, ALT+ENTER would be a good key combination because it works on both CMD and Powershell. F11 only works on CMD
claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 00:06:29 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#5158