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Or you can just use Megazoomer which will make any Cocoa app fullscreen:

http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

Combine that with "Hide Statusbar", "Hide Toolbar", "Hide Bookmarks Bar" and you've got a chromeless Safari.

I use Megazoomer a lot with Terminal.app.

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I would pay dollars for something that could hide my OS X menu bar in the same way that I can hide the dock. An added benefit would be to hide all my desktop icons (which I right-align) until I move my mouse to the edge of the screen.

Having tried a few isolation apps, I now wish more of that stuff was built into the OS itself.

Have you ever looked into Visor by Blacktree (Same folks that did Quicksilver)? http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-visor/ - It allows you to show/hide a terminal with a key combo. Not the exact thing you want, but closer to it then any other plugin/app I know of.

I agree that the desktop is annoying, so that's why I forked out cash for Deskshade, from the makers of Espresso (a Coda competitor). A simple hotkey combo (for me it's command+return) triggers the show/hide.

http://macrabbit.com/deskshade/

I'm a cheap bastard and it's one of the few pieces of software I've paid for, which also feels good because it's an indie developer. Totally worth it, I feel like I can breathe again with the desktop hidden.

Ack - Megazoomer requires SIMBL and I've been burned by that in the past. The Wikipedia page says the problems are in the past but I'd still be hesitant to install it. I had some kind of app that dimmed the menu bar on command and had to install SIMBL in order to get it to work, which ended up being a bit of a nightmare after a few OS X updates.

Yeah, there's no way I'm touching SIMBL.

I crave fullscreen Terminal.app

I've been using it for a year and not had any problems (but only with this one plugin). Could it be that there are plugins out there that are specifically crap?

I regularly flip between full screen Emacs.app (with the elisp below) and then have a fullscreen, tabbed Terminal.app. Throw in Freedom.app and it's like canned productivity.

  (defun mac-toggle-max-window ()
    (interactive)
    (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen (if (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen) nil 'fullboth)))

  (global-set-key [?\A-f] 'mac-toggle-max-window)

This function doesn't work for me. :-( I use Emacs.app compiled from CVS (maybe a week ago). Anything I need to get this working?

You might need this:

  (setq mac-command-modifier 'alt)

My full ~/.emacs is here:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/364670/wheels.emacs

I use function by M-x, not a hotkey. ;-) So it's definitely not a problem. Looks like this happens because I've switched to Cocoa version of Emacs.

I've been bitten by that (loved my fullscreen emacs). It only worked in the carbon version; CVS now uses cocoa as far as I know.

Granted it hasn't been updated in a while, but I found iTerm's full-screen mode quite workable.

http://iterm.sourceforge.net

I use MacTelnet instead of Terminal.app, and it does full screen with either text zoom or resize.

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