Making Any Window Go Full-Screen
Netbooks have smaller screens than regular sized laptops. This helps make them much more portable, but it can sometimes be a bit of a challenge to fit everything you want to work with on the screen.
To get around this, some applications like Firefox have built-in the ability to go full screen, where everything else (including the panel at the top of the screen) is hidden from view. But not every application has this built-in, but it would be nice to be able to make any application go full screen.
Thankfully, this is something we can easily do using compiz.
(If you’ve been following this blog, by now you should already have compiz installed and working on your netbook. If not, we have a complete set of instructions to get you started).
Enabling The Full Screen Hot Key Combination
Launch ccsm (you’ll find it under the System menu, as Preferences -> CompizConfig Settings Manager). A window will open listing all of the different features of compiz:
CompizConfig Settings Manager
All of the different features are grouped by type, and the list of types can be seen on the left of the window. Click on Window Management, and on the right hand side of the window you’ll see a bunch of features appear, including the one we are looking for 
The Window Management Group In ccsm
Make sure Extra WM Actions is ticked, and then click on it to into its settings.
The Extra WM Actions Settings In ccsm
Setup a key combination for Toggle Fullscreen. Applications like Firefox normally use F11, so I personally have chosen Super+F11 (the Super key is the Windows key on your netbook keyboard) to help me remember it.
Setting Up A Key Combination To Toggle Full Screen In ccsm
Click Okay, and you should now be able to make any window full screen by pressing your chosen key combination. To switch the window back to its normal size, press your chosen key combination a second time.
