Frames: selectively enabling GUI

[Joel J. Adamson]

Howdy Friends,

I've discovered how cool it is to have a "work frame" on one virtual
desktop in KDE, that is a full-screen frame with no menu-bar,
scroll-bar, toolbar or frame boundary.  It looks like a console, but
with better color rendering (try it out).  NOTE: this is using KDE's
full-screen functionality, not the Emacs command-line option
--full-screen.

However, on my "home" workspace, I also keep two frames with Gnus and
my diary.  In those frames I'd like to have the menu-bar at the
least.  I've been mucking about with make-variable-frame-local, but
the problem I'm having is controlling the modes from within a function
(perhaps a hook).  I just don't know where to go from
make-variable-frame-local --- can I even make a mode frame-local?
What's the relationship between a mode and a variable?

Has anyone found a way to do this already?

Thanks,
Joel
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Joel J. Adamson
Biostatistician
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
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