Start Zathura full-screen / remember window size

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How do I start the document viewer Zathura maximised?

Is there any way to get my window manager xfce to remember the last open window's size?

The default window size is only about 1/8th of my screen.

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '18 at 20:34

There's an undocumented launch option, --mode. The examples given for this were "presentation", and "fullscreen", so just use zathura --mode fullscreen [FILE]. If that gets to be a bother, they don't have a configuration entry for this, for whatever reason, so what I did was add --mode fullscreen to my zathura.desktop file. It's a bit of a bother having to use xdg-open to access all of my PDFs, though.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '18 at 00:16

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You can set height and width to a large value, so that it will cover your entire screen. In my case the following did the trick:

set window-height 3000
set window-width 3000

answered Jan 28 '18 at 00:16

Ricardo Pietrobon

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered May 29 '17 at 09:08

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You could use zathurarc to configure the default window size. From man zathurarc:

window-height
   Defines the window height on startup

   · Value type: Integer

   · Default value: 600

window-width
   Defines the window width on startup

   · Value type: Integer

   · Default value: 800

answered May 29 '17 at 09:08

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for info: zathura looks for `zathurarc` at `/etc/zathurarc` or `~/.config/zathura/zathurac` by default https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/documentation/ – Matthew Towers Mar 10 '19 at 14:21
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Docs https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/5-zathurarc/#lbDE – Hasan Sh Nov 24 '19 at 11:56

Start Zathura full-screen / remember window size

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