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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?

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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.

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    This answer works on the Xubuntu LTS 18.04 GNU/Linux distribution.
    – Serge Stroobandt
    Sep 23, 2018 at 23:35
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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
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    Didn't work. Maybe event is not being called.
    – cdvv7788
    Mar 21, 2016 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, 2016 at 19:26

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