Question

I’m trying to use emacs in fullscreen mode with a decent font. I have an nvidia-based laptop running Ubuntu. When it first loads, the font is huge think 16pt font. I used the menu options to set a decent font (8pt).

Now when I run emacs in fullscreen mode, it adjusts the window sort of for the huge font then loads my 8pt font. Now half of my screen is the minibuffer. How do I correctly set the font so that I can use fullscreen mode.

I have tried specifying displaysize in my x config and X does not start. I hear theres something else you need to do for nvidia drivers… but not sure how that works.

Answer 1

I use the following (from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen) in my .emacs:

(defun toggle-fullscreen (&optional f)
  (interactive)
  (let ((current-value (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen)))
    (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen
                         (if (equal 'fullboth current-value)
                             (if (boundp 'old-fullscreen) old-fullscreen nil)
                           (progn (setq old-fullscreen current-value)
                                  'fullboth)))))

(global-set-key [f11] 'toggle-fullscreen)

;; Make new frames fullscreen by default. Note: this hook doesn't do
;; anything to the initial frame if it's in your .emacs, since that file is
;; read _after_ the initial frame is created.
(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions 'toggle-fullscreen)

Then F11 will toggle fullscreen on/off.