RE: Gvim - Always Opens In Full Screen

 

> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:34:09 -0600
> From: vim@tim.thechases.com
> To: vim_use@googlegroups.com
> CC: rfulbrig@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Gvim - Always Opens In Full Screen
>
> > In the past I added the following line to my _vimrc file to have
> > gvim open in full screen: au GUIEnter * simalt ~xNow it opens
> > in full screen even when the above line is commented out.
> > Something elsehas crept in, but I cannot find it. When I start
> > with gvim -u NONE it does not open withfull screen, so something
> > along the way is causing it. Any ideas on what else (other
> > thanthe above statement) forces gvim to open full screen?
>
> I've done it in the past with a combination of
>
> :winpos 0 0
> :set lines=120 columns=80
>
> which should also come close to maximizing.
>
> Alternatively, you don't mention your OS, but at least within an X
> environment, my window manager allows me to specify that certain
> apps always start as maximized (such as I have it configured to
> always start certain applications full-screen without chrome).
> However, since you state that you don't have problems when you run
> with "-u NONE", I suspect this isn't the case.
>
> -tim
>
Thanks for your reply. I am running on Windows 7. I do not need to know how to run maximized (running maximized is my problem). I need to figure out how to keep from running maximized.