How to maximize GNOME Terminal on Linux

Question

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, C language , Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers

Question: I'm programming a typing tutor which run on GNOME terminal, i want to maximize terminal when run the program(on GNOME). How can i realize it, does anyone have suggestions or any possible clues.

Answer 1

$ gnome-terminal --maximize

Should do.

Take a look at

$ gnome-terminal --help
$ gnome-terminal --help-window-options

etc. to see what else you can do.

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So you want to run your application inside a maximized GNOME terminal? The easiest way is to seperate launching the application from the code itself.

Write a shellscript wrapper which runs gnome-terminal --maximize -x my_typing_tutorial. Then set up the shortcut (or whatever) to run this script, instead of your binary.

Note this gives you a chance to detect if gnome-terminal isn't installed, and try starting konsole or xterm instead. It also means that a user can edit the start script if it doesn't work on their system, without having to re-compile your binary.

Note that I'm not addressing the question of how to maximize an existing terminal - if I were the user, I'd hate a program that messed up my window geometry without asking.

Answer 2

You can use wmctrl, to get current window id use $WINDOWID environment variable, to get current window geometry use xwinfo -id $WINDOWID

so after something like sudo aptitude install wmctrl :

• wmctrl -i -r $WINDOWID -b toggle,fullscreen #toggle fullscreen
• wmctrl -i -r $WINDOWID -b add,fullscreen #force fullscreen
• wmctrl -i -r $WINDOWID -b remove,fullscreen #force remove fullscreen

Also wmctrl have own way to handle current window:

wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b toggle,fullscreen

Answer 3

You could create a launcher called it "Gnome Terminal Maximized" for your desktop and double-click on it. This is how to do it:

cat /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop|sed 's/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal --maximize/;s/Name=Terminal/& Maximized/' > ~/Desktop/gnome-terminal-maximized.desktop

Answer 4

You can use the xdotool utility.

You can run xdotool code that automatically moves the mouse to the upper left corner of the active window, double clicks and the moves back, in a fraction of a second. The code is the following:

#get the active windows id.
active_window_id=$(xdotool getactivewindow)
#get current x and y mouse locations.
cx=$(xdotool getmouselocation --shell | grep X | sed s/X=//gi);
cy=$(xdotool getmouselocation --shell | grep Y | sed s/Y=//gi);

#move to upper left corner of current window.
xdotool mousemove --window ${active_window_id} 50 -10;
#double click.
xdotool click 1;
xdotool click 1;
#move back to original location with the mouse.
xdotool mousemove ${cx} ${cy};

You can then put this code into a start_script and then run that file by putting the following in your ~/.bashrc:

start(){
    /path/your_start_script
    }

The when you run this start command the terminal becomes maximized. You can also insert whatever other commands you want to happen when you start a terminal.

You can install xdotool with:
sudo apt-install xdotool;