How to make your window Full Screen in gnome?

I have often had this problem of getting quite seriously distracted while coding and I always like to use as much screen real state to work on but then again, there are other applications that need it too and it can be a lot of distraction with gmail messages popping up and all sorts of nasty stuff happening. One option is to just go into some other desktop manager but I kind of like solving the problems at hand and gnome does provide me with some really good features that I've become used to.

I started wondering if I could make eclipse full screen so that I can just focus on the code and hopefully nothing else.

Then I came across this useful link http://www.enigmacurry.com/2007/02/17/gnome-kiosk-mode-make-any-app-fullscreen supposed to be a rant about the feature gnome lacked but updated to add this instruction.
There is a nice feature that lets users set keybindings.

Here are the steps:

1. Open gconf-editor using the trusty old Alt-F2 combination

Now go to /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_fullscreen and set the Key Binding

Also, if you're using Beryl instead of metacity, this option is reasonably easy to find in the beryl settings manager: "General Options"->"Shortcuts"->"General Options"->"Bindings"->"Toggle Window Fullscreen"

As you can see, I have set it to F11.

There is a somewhat easier way to do this too using the System>Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts tool

Find the Toggle Fullscreen mode and set the key. As easy as that. I generally prefer the gconf-editor mode because it gives more control to whatever I type. I have unwittingly changed some shortcuts from the Keyboard Shortcuts tool couple of times already to know better now :).

So, finally my eclipse screen is full.. and hopefully without distractions :P

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