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

[Jan D.]

>     > 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.
> 
> 
>     Yes, this is what xli does.  It creates a window with the size of the 
>     screen and does XSetNormalHints with both Psize and Usize set, and 
>     minsize set to maxsize.
> 
>     It makes the window cover the screen, but it is no maximized in the 
>     window manager sense, i.e. if there is a maximize button that the window 
>     manager puts on the window it is not in the maximize state. maybe that 
>     doesn't matter.
> 
> Would you like to implement this in Emacs?  Maybe the option could be
> done in Lisp using x-display-pixel-width and x-display-pixel-height.

I'll have a look.  One must move the settings of hints before the window is
mapped, since some window managers don't check positions and size after
mapping (twm, kde1, ...).  And then there is compensation for window
decorations (something xli ignores), but it should be feasible.

        Jan D.