How to go full screen in a terminal on PocketC.H.I.P.?

Question

How can I get rid of the menu bar at the top of the terminal app on a PocketC.H.I.P? It would be nice to hide the scrollbar as well.

Is it even possible to disable the scroll bar and the menu bar in vala-terminal which is the default terminal on the PokcetCHIP? Is it possible in xfce4-terminal?

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^{The menu bar is at the top and the scrollbar is on the right.}

Answer 1

It looks like there are 2 terminals available on the PocketC.H.I.P. out of the box:

• vala-terminal
• xfce4-terminal

vala-terminal

I've read the manual and it looks like this emulator doesn't provide an option to disable bars.

xfce4-terminal

I was able to disable the menu bar after tinkering with the ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc file.

I wasn't able to disable the scroll bar though. According to the Internet, it cannot be easily achieved.

New hope: the st terminal emulator

I decided to install a lightwieght terminal.

sudo apt-get install gcc make
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxft-dev libxext-dev
git clone git://git.suckless.org/st
cd st
sudo make clean install

And then I edited my the menu config file (/usr/share/pocket-home/config.json) to make the terminal icon launch st:

{
  "defaultPage" : "Apps",
  "pages": [
    {
      "name": "Apps",
      "items": [
        {
          "name": "Terminal",
          "icon": "appIcons/terminal.png",
          "shell": "st"
        },
      (...)

And now I can enjoy my uncluttered terminal in my PocketC.H.I.P.