Show or hide the Dock: Move the pointer to or away from the Dock’s location. If you deselected the option to hide and show the menu bar in full screen, the menu bar is always shown. Show or hide the menu bar: Move the pointer to or away from the top of the screen. On your Mac, move the pointer to the green button in the top-left corner of the window, then choose Enter Full Screen from the menu that appears or click the button. Get started with accessibility features.Use Sign in with Apple for apps and websites.Watch and listen together with SharePlay.Share and collaborate on files and folders.Sync music, books and more between devices.Make and receive phone calls on your Mac.Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad.Use Live Text to interact with text in a photo.Make it easier to see what’s on the screen.Install and reinstall apps from the App Store.If you find an application that has full screen and isn't covered by the above shortcuts, add the menu item as above for that Application and again assign to the same short-cut key and all should be good. Lastly click on the + icon again, this time typing:Īgain, assign the same key combination of Command+Control+FĪs you rightly said, applications like iTerm use this menu option, rather than Enter/Exit Full screen, but assigning to the same key makes it somewhat universal. Now you need to assign it a keyboard shortcut, I chose Command+Control+F because it's the same as the general default that correctly mentionedĬlick “Add” and then click on the + icon again, this time typing:Ĭhoose the same keyboard shortcut as you chose before which in effect creates a toggle, and click onto “Add” again (This is the label as shown in the menu of the application)

“Keyboard Shortcuts” tab and choose ‘Application Shortcuts’ from theĬlick on the + icon to add a new keyboard shortcutįor all applications and type the following exactly: Open System Preferences and click on the”Keyboard” icon Select the I did the following and chose CMD+CTRL+F as a shortcut and worked on OSx 10.8 and upwards.

The details described below though can still be helpful if you have applications that are not honoring the Fn+F shortcut or you want to change it to something else, like CMD+CTRL+F 2022 Update: The default shortcut in MacOS (I believe since MacOS 11 'Big Sur') is now Fn+F which 'out of the box' seems to work for most applications (at least on my MacBook / Apple Keyboard).

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