Feature request: Command-line parameter to override size (or perhaps disable resizing-on-init completely)

[gabm]

could you elaborate what behaviour you want to improve? how should it be?

[somebody1234]

I want to be able to open a satty window that spans all monitors at the same time, but the hard limit of 80% of monitor size is preventing that.

For now I've just patched in a --no-resize parameter locally that immediately returns from the function that resizes the window, and I've instead set up my WM so that it resizes the window to the appropriate size

[gabm]

Currently, Satty resizes to 80% because that makes the window floating by default on most WMs. That is the approach being used by swappy and has been adopted. Atm I see this as some kind of hack because I'm not sure this is even a "standard".

I see the possible uses for:

• no resize - let the wm decide what to do
• full screen on one monitor - this is what happens currently with --fullscreen
• full screen on all monitors - this is what you ask for. I am not sure there is a proper option in current UI toolkits. Afaik, most software focuses on single monitors
• have it floating - this is the current default achieved by 80% resizing

Any of these could also be achieved by a mixture of "no resize" and a program specific config in the config of your wm.

that makes me think that no-resize might even be default, the floating or full screen just an option...