Neovim-qt: How to set the size of the GUI?

[kierun]

Title pretty much says it all... I tried:

nvim-qt -h
nvim-qt --help
nvim-qt --width=80
nvim-qt --geom 80x120

without much success...

[jamessan]

See also #83.

[equalsraf]

Not at the moment, working on it in an upcoming PR/issue. Stay tuned.

[kierun]

@equalsraf, thank you. Should we close this?

[equalsraf]

No, leave it open, it is still a valid issue to want a way to force an initial size. We need one or both of

• a command line argument (seems doable on top of #109, just override the default size), but its likely this will be useless with future changes in Neovim.
• init.vim option/var (for now this is harder, requires some extra changes) i.e. we need some vimscript scaffolding

Open issues:

• Is this supposed to be pixel size or the number of columns/rows?
• Special geometry keywords might be possible (but not reliable in some window managers) e.g. maximized (for #83) or fullscreen

[kierun]

I use a 24 lines, 80 characters vim and get the size in pixel or whatnot from that. But then again, I do use vertical maximise and back again a lot. Also, some code just does not fit into that (html templates come to mind) so I end up re-sizing the window via the window manager resize functionality to whatever looks good at the time. I'm a great help, ain't I⸮

Again, overall I shall be happy with whatever you implement as long as it's documented.

[equalsraf]

Errr, just realized something, --geometry seems to work already (at least in #109) maybe its default behavior in Qt/QMainWindow.

[kierun]

So it does... nvim-qt --geometry 500x320 ook.py seems to give me the right dimensions aka 24 rows, 80 columns. All maximized_horizontal and maximized_vertical work as expected. ☺

Now, off to find out why I get no colours in vim-airline and code highlighting whereas I do on console... ☹

[equalsraf]

Documented in http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qguiapplication.html its also possible to set the window position, -geometry should also work.

Now, off to find out why I get no colours in vim-airline and code highlighting whereas I do on console... ☹

Did you see this for airline https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt/pull/101?

[kierun]

No, I did not know about it. Thank you. In addition to the following:

filetype plugin indent on
syntax on

All is fine with colours.

[auwsmit]

I wanted to add to this for any Windows users that you can have the window start automatically maximized by changing the properties of the shortcut.

Properties -> Shortcut -> Run: Maximized

[equalsraf]

@AssailantLF thanks, its also possible to use --maximized now

[Himura2la]

On Windows 10 you should use -qwindowgeometry 1030x608

[daveman1010221]

I cannot find an answer to this question anywhere: Trying to create an autocommand that sets the GUI width when neovim-qt starts, based on filetype. I can maximize the window, but that's pretty much not what I'm trying to do. There doesn't seem to be a way to tell the GUI how many columns wide you want it, without launching it with args. Any ideas?

[kierun]

I cannot find an answer to this question anywhere: Trying to create an autocommand that sets the GUI width when neovim-qt starts, based on filetype. I can maximize the window, but that's pretty much not what I'm trying to do. There doesn't seem to be a way to tell the GUI how many columns wide you want it, without launching it with args. Any ideas?

@daveman1010221 Does autocmd FileType text GuiFont! PragmataPro Nerd Font Mono:h9 works for you?

I use this to set up fonts based on machine name. Maybe that could help you too?

if IsOnSomeParticularMachine('nightwatch') GuiFont! PragmataProMono Nerd Font:h9 else GuiFont! PragmataPro Nerd Font Mono:h9 endif

[daveman1010221]

@kierun this is a great tip, but actually I'm trying to re-size the GUI window itself, not the fonts. :-)

[equalsraf]

I cant test right now but one these should work

In columns/rows sizes there is set lines=20 or set columns=20.

There is no way to resize with pixel or screen coordinates coordinates. But in vimscript the variable v:windowid should provide you with the id of that window. In linux you could call some other tool to resize the window using that (maybe xprop or xdotool).