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Press F11 to Make the Current Tab Go Fullscreen #3688

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A lot of windows applications use F11 to go fullscreen. Try it on your browser, it will probably work. In many cases, I just want to use a single terminal tab in full screen, so I can run tmux inside it. Being able to go fullscreen gives me just a bit more screen area that is really helpful.

I saw #2577, but that only involves opening full screen on startup. This was merged into #1043 which is setting an initial position for the terminal, but that doesn't really encompass having a button to open a window in fullscreen.

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The user should be able to press F11 and the current tab will go fullscreen. If F11 is taken, CTRL+F11 or CTRL+SHIFT+F11 is a good pattern to use because it aligns with the opening and closing of tabs shortcuts. Also, ALT+ENTER would be a good key combination because it works on both CMD and Powershell. F11 only works on CMD

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    Needs-TriageIt's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting
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  4. DHowett-MSFT commented on Nov 24, 2019

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    You're probably talking about the feature that merged with #3408 ... so this is a /dupe of #531, #3411

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    Needs-TriageIt's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting
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    Resolution-DuplicateThere's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.
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  9. DHowett-MSFT commented on Nov 24, 2019

    @DHowett-MSFT
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    (Thanks for the thoughtful writeup!)

  10. ShiromMakkad commented on Nov 24, 2019

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    Yea, sorry for not spotting the duplicate. I'm excited to see the feature come out!

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