How to get a full-screen Gmail compose window every time

July 23, 2013

Last week we talked about Gmail's spiffy new inbox-sorting tabs. Today let's look at another new feature, one that's just starting to roll out to users: a full-screen new-message window. By default, when you click Gmail's Compose button, you get a window that appears in the right corner of the screen. Now there's a new option. In the top-right corner of that Compose window, you'll see three icons: Minimize, Full-screen, and Close. Clicking that middle one enlarges the window, though the description "full-screen" is a little disingenuous here: you actually get a larger, centered window that darkens the background. At least, that's how it appears on my system, which runs at 1,920 x 1,080. If you have a lower-resolution screen, the window may indeed seem closer to full-screen. (Anyone running, say, a 1,366 x 768 display? Hit the comments and let your fellow readers know if the window really is "full-screen," or still just bigger and centered.) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045008/how-to-get-a-full-screen-gmail-compose-window-every-time.html#tk.rss_howto