Re: [RP] Maximize terminal?

[Kevin Geiss]

I think the problem is that xterm is just wanting to resize based on  
the size of the font it uses. it doesn't want to take up every last  
left over pixel; it wants to round to the nearest character size.

On Aug 13, 2005, at 7:02 AM, Daniel Link wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know, setting background images is kryptonite, but I did it anyway.
> Problem: Every terminal I tried leaves a small area free, in other  
> words
> they just don't get big enough. Size matters. Take a look at this
> screenshot:
>
> http://www.konsistent.de/img/ScrewedWallpaper.jpg
>
> This is pretty ugly. Ok, again, some people may say wallpapers in
> general are ugly, but let's put this religious stuff aside. Is there a
> way of maximizing all programs to the full size of a frame? I'd
> understand problems with xterm and aterm only, but even the awfully  
> slow
> gnome-terminal doesn't get it. And I've never had similar problems in
> the dark ages before Ratpoison. Any ideas? If gnome can resize  
> terminals
> to take up the whole screen, it'd be a shame if Ratpoison couldn't.
>
> Bye, Daniel
>
>
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