How to start maximized gui with qt-neovim?

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I am using neovim with qt-neovim (linux arch). On gvim I could launch a maximized window with:

if has("gui_running")
    set lines 999 columns 999
endif

That is not working now though. I tried removing the if without success. Is there any way I can achieve that?

You should create an issue for that at their bugtracker. neovim tries to be compatible with vim, so this should just work. — Christian Brabandt, Dec 20 '15 at 08:10

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '18 at 11:39

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Try putting

call rpcnotify(0, 'Gui', 'WindowMaximized', 1)

in your ginit.vim. I haven't tested on Linux, but it works on Windows 7.

answered Apr 30 '18 at 11:39

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This answer works on the Xubuntu LTS 18.04 GNU/Linux distribution. – Serge Stroobandt Sep 23 '18 at 23:35

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '16 at 20:25

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The reason seems to stem from the fact that neovim sets gui_running only after your .vimrc is sourced (see here). In this discussion it is proposed to use the GUIEnter event, thus a solution could be

autocmd GUIEnter * set lines=999 columns=999

answered Mar 21 '16 at 20:25

Ingo

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Didn't work. Maybe event is not being called. – cdvv7788 Mar 21 '16 at 23:42
@cdvv7788 does invoking vim with --cmd 'let gui_running="y"' together with setting columns and rows inside an if using if exists('gui_running') work? – Ingo Mar 22 '16 at 19:26

How to start maximized gui with qt-neovim?

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