GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 314850
Option to open in full screen mode
Last modified: 2005-11-11 11:48:34 UTC
From: BCR <brock@quantifier.org> Hi. I don't know where else to post a feature request, so here it is: I'd like a command line option to open evince in full screen mode. as it is, you have to click view, click fullscreen. i'd like to do it w/out touching the mouse. i see that f11 should open full screen, but in windowmaker, at least, f11 is bound to some other feature, and so it doesnt work for evince.
If the use case is only the windowmaker work around I dont think we should add this. Any other good use case?
it's not just a windowmaker work around. It's a command line option. I'd like to be able to say: ~$ evince -f file.pdf and have it open full screen, rather than having to go through the mess of opening it up every time. why can't i affect the geometry in command line?
I still don't see a clear use case for this (in other words why not just using F11...). Anyway I dont have a strong opinion, Bryan do you have an opinion on this?
Wontfixing this. I'd rather see it done through the dbus interface if someone wants to give it a go.
too bad. i'll switch to using xdvi and xpdf, both of which allow me a command line option of opening in full screen mode. in fact, nearly every x11 based program that i use allows me this option; i wonder why any command-line savvy user would consider it un-necessary. i use a dvi/pdf viewer to edit my LaTeX documents as i create them. so, while one extra step seems trivial to you, maybe, for those of us that rely heavily on the viewer, it adds that trivial step over and over. Thanks anyway. i'll check back on evince some time in the future, maybe.
when you have many pdf files which contents is a mistery for you even after reading file name & browsing them with e.g. tuxcmd then that would be good thing to have this option (click on pdf file - evince opens if full screen mode, which helps you in fast judgment of contents...) ; i also really think it's a cool feature and looking forward to see it (or at least to open file in maximized window instead of a fixed size) ; it's just makes you feel like having more of control over things when one click opens sth in full screen mode (mplayer for example -> mplayer _file_to_play_ - fs) ; and i'm not sure but this feature shouldn't be hard to implement, or am i wrong ?