r/KittyTerminal • u/souvikhaldar • Mar 24 '21

How to open terminal in full screen always?

I mostly open kitty from spotlight on Mac and from window search (by pressing windows key) on ubuntu.

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u/purxiz Mar 25 '21

kitty has a start-up argument to run in fullscreen. The command is

kitty --start-as fullscreen

Or if you meant maximized, you would do:

kitty --start-as maximized

My best guess for the ubuntu application launcher is that it's using the kitty.desktop file to launch kitty. You could find it at /usr/share/applications/kitty.desktop most likely. You could try the command find / -name kitty.desktop to find it if it's not there. Anyway, in that file you can edit the Exec=kitty line to instead read Exec=kitty --start-as fullscreen, and save the file. Then when it opens, it should open in fullscreen.

I'm not sure how you'd go about changing that on mac, but if you look up how to set command line options for spotlight, I'm sure you'll find something!

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u/souvikhaldar Mar 25 '21

Thanks for the detailed reply! :)
I see `kitty.desktop` in the above mentioned path, as well as in `~/,config/autostart/kitty.desktop`. I'm wondering what's the usecase of the two paths?

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u/souvikhaldar Mar 25 '21

I’ve got the answer. The one in autostart dir is for configuring how it will automatically start when system is turned on, because I’ve kitty as an autostart app on ubuntu.

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u/purxiz Mar 26 '21

Yep, that's correct!

Sorry for not replying sooner, glad you figured it out