Fullscreen with zoomed font

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Fullscreen mode in MinTTY fills up the whole screen with as many rows and
columns as the current font size allows, thus maximising the space
available, much like e.g. in web browsers.

Fullscreen mode in the DOS box on the other hand (when it was still
supported), switched the graphics card into character mode and kept the
number of rows and columns, thereby in effect zooming the window contents
up to the whole screen.

Character mode is out of the question for MinTTY, but something similar
could be done by scaling up the font size. Since the window geometry is
unlikely to exactly fit the screen geometry, the font size could be
increased as far as possible while still fitting all existing rows and columns.

Any remaining space could be filled up with additional character cells, but
those would have to be cut away again when going back to window mode.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andy.koppe on 8 Jan 2009 at 6:05

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Not sure what the UI should be for this. An option to choose the type of 
fullscreen
mode? Separate menu entries for both (with Shift-Alt-Enter as the shortcut for 
the
zoomed version)?

Original comment by andy.koppe on 8 Jan 2009 at 6:10

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If you want font-zooming, why restrict it to fullscreen mode? 
Could be handy in window mode too, e.g. for presentations/demos. 
Zooming like in Firefox (ctrl +- or even ctrl scrollwheel) would be really 
nifty...

Original comment by servaasg on 3 Mar 2009 at 2:34

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I'd thought about that actually, but never remembered to enter an Issue. Will 
do now.
Thanks!

Original comment by andy.koppe on 3 Mar 2009 at 2:51

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Fullscreen and font zooming might as well be kept separate actually. Issue 
closed.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 26 Apr 2009 at 11:21

• Changed state: Rejected