Add launch command "--start-as" option

[marcoSven]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
See issue #6021

Describe the solution you'd like
Add --start-as to the launch command option to control how the initial kitty window is created.
Default: normal
Choices: fullscreen, maximized, minimized, normal

example to launch with a maximized window.
launch --type=os-window --start-as=maximized

The --start-as option is already available in the CLI https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/invocation/#cmdoption-kitty-start-as

[kovidgoyal]

As I said in the previous issue, this is not something thats worth the
effort to me, but patches are welcome.

[page-down]

@kovidgoyal
How do I set the value for wndconfig->maximized?
If we can get the following code to work when the window is created, the window will be displayed in the maximized state. So the maximizing animation will not appear.

glfw/cocoa_window.m

if (wndconfig->maximized)
    [window->ns.object zoom:nil];

glfw/wl_window.c

if (wndconfig->maximized)
    window->wl.maximize_on_first_show = true;

I believe that the function glfwCreateWindow needs extra parameters for this purpose.

Related issue:
#4949

[kovidgoyal]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 03:11:26AM -0800, page-down wrote: @kovidgoyal How do I set the value for `wndconfig->maximized`?

glfwWindowHint()

If we can get the following code to work when the window is created, the window will be displayed in the maximized state. So the maximizing animation will not appear. ```objc if (wndconfig->maximized) [window->ns.object zoom:nil]; ``` I believe that the function glfwCreateWindow needs extra parameters for this purpose.

No, you can just call glfwWindowHint() before calling glfwCreateWindow(). Since its global it will eed to be called for every glfwCreateWindow().

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[marcoSven]

🙏 Thank you @kovidgoyal - I was planning to look into it this weekend.