Non apple apps in fullscreen mode, e.g. eclipse?

[jojo0815]

Hi all,

does anyone know if it is possible to use apps that are originally not from apple in fullscreen mode, i.e. as fullscreen app?

I am asking in particular for a fullscreen mode for eclipse. That would be really nice. But i am sure there exist a number of other programs that might take advantage from running as fullscreen app.

Does anyone know where to change settings?

 

[emiljan]

In Firefox you are able to do this by pressing shift+command+f. Maybe other applications have the same effect.

 

[Mrguidogenio]

In Firefox you are able to do this by pressing shift+command+f. Maybe other applications have the same effect.

This is not Apple full Screen mode. It''s the way Firefox do it. You will realize there are no arrow in the Menu Bar to return, as it happen with Mail, iTunes, Safari, iCal, etc

For the Apple way of full screen you'll have to wait for each dev to update the app.

 

[jojo0815]

Thats all? really no way?

 

[eagandale4114]

The devs must rewrite the code and add in the fullscreen APIs for it to work.

 

[jbuk]

Eclipse is very unlikely to get fullscreen anytime soon, as it is a Java app and not native Objective-C/Cocoa, so it doesn't have the same API access that native apps do.