I use recently discovered zathura and I like it a lot. I use it now to check the documents from emacs/AUCTeX like:
(setq TeX-view-program-list '(("zathura" "zathura --page=%(outpage) %o")))
Which is the same, for example, as:
$ zathura --page=12
I would like to launch zathura maximized and / or fullscreen and to page-width zoom.
Is there an option to do that?
--mode fullscreen. It isn't in the man file, for whatever reason.
xdg-utils installed (I think this would probably be a default on Ubuntu) is change your zathura.desktop file (probably in ~/.local/share/applications), and add --mode fullscreen to the "Exec" line. This means that you're going to have to use xdg-open setting the application/pdf mime default to zathura, instead of zathura as-is. And being as hacky a solution as it is, I don't think it'll work well for what you're going for.
The Zathura documentation HERE says this:
“The customization of zathura is managed via a configuration file called zathurarc.”
The documentation is extensive and if you know how to edit the configuration file, you should be in good shape… And, yes, you can have it open maximized and set to page width.
I put this alias in my ~/.bashrc to make zathura always open in full screen mode:
alias zathura='zathura --mode fullscreen'
