diff -r 2533f186089d surf.c
--- a/surf.c	Thu Mar 31 12:52:35 2011 +0200
+++ b/surf.c	Thu Oct 20 17:03:08 2011 -0700
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 static Client *clients = NULL;
 static GdkNativeWindow embed = 0;
 static gboolean showxid = FALSE;
+static gboolean fullscreen = FALSE;
 static char winid[64];
 static char *progname;
 static gboolean loadimage = 1, plugin = 1, script = 1;
@@ -433,6 +434,8 @@
 		 * window class (WM_CLASS) is capped, while the resource is in
 		 * lowercase.   Both these values come as a pair.
 		 */
+		if(fullscreen)
+			gtk_window_fullscreen(c->win);
 		gtk_window_set_wmclass(GTK_WINDOW(c->win), "surf", "surf");
 
 		/* TA:  20091214:  And set the role here as well -- so that
@@ -828,6 +831,9 @@
 		case 'x':
 			showxid = TRUE;
 			break;
+		case 'f':
+			fullscreen = TRUE;
+			break;
 		case 'v':
 			die("surf-"VERSION", © 2009 surf engineers, see LICENSE for details\n");
 		default: