I am using this command to open google using midori on the raspberry pi.
The problem is that this command opens a small window on the upper left corner, instead of going fullscreen.

I've tried this with matchbox-window-manager and it works fine. But I'd prefer not to use a window manager if I can avoid it.

I've looked around and I can't find an option to tell xinit to go fullscreen.

Anyone did this?

Can you maximize the window?

Whatever i do, i have to do it remotely through ssh. So if there is a way to maximize the window, it will have to ne done using a command. Not a mouse or keyboard.

Alright, I think I found a solution, but it involves knowing the PID of your process. Use the command:

awk '$3 == YOUR_PID {print $1}' <(wmctrl -lp) | xargs -i% sh -c "xwit -id % -pop -raise; wmctrl -i -r % -b add,maximized_vert,maximized_horz"

Where YOUR_PID is the PID of the window you want to maximum. There is a possible caveat though, this will maximize all windows in a certain process. For example if had 3 windows of nautilus, they would all maximize.
Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38498...n-pid-from-cli

EDIT 1: I just realized, from the post I linked to, that this requires xwit, but don't be alarmed if you can't find a package with xwit because it still works without it, atleast for me.

When I run the command I get a message saying "Cannot open display."

Were you getting errors that said xwit wasn't a found command?

EDIT 1: Also, this probably shouldn't be a problem, probably, but are you on Windows sshing to a raspberry pi through cygwin or are you on Linux? There may be a communication problem between the Windows version of X Server.

No. initially there was an error that wmctrl was missing but i installed it. No errors after that.

I want you try to uninstall xwit, if it's viable, and try the command again. It sound stupid even to me, but I feel like that this has a good chance of working.

it seems that xwit is not installed

root@ClientX:~# apt-get remove xwit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'xwit' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.

root@ClientX:~# awk '$3 == 484 {print $1}' <(wmctrl -lp) | xargs -i% sh -c "xwit -id % -pop -raise; wmctrl -i -r % -b add,maximized_vert,maximized_horz"
Cannot open display.

That's weird. What happens if you run xwit? If it can't find the command, then there's something going wrong before it even gets to that part of the command. If bash can find the command, then you need to do apt-get update then apt-cache search xwit to find the real name for the package to unintall. If apt-cache search can't find the package and bash can't find the command, then, I need you to refer to the edit I did on a previous post which I will quote here:

Also, this probably shouldn't be a problem, probably, but are you on Windows sshing to a raspberry pi through cygwin or are you on Linux? There may be a communication problem between the Windows version of X Server.

This problem is becoming ticky dicky and it's becoming far more complicated than I would like it.

sudo xinit? You're trying to run X and midori AS ROOT? I'd drop the sudo.

By default X starts with "-nolisten tcp" on many distros, which would hinder most networked based X niche cases.

Any reason you're not using startx which would launch xinit via the contents of .xinitrc? Or using something like Xephyr if X is already running?

Your initial command also seemed to be passing xset parameters. Note that for xset "s" does not use "-" before the "s". If X were already running:

$ xset -dpms s off s noblank s noexpose

So there's probably something wrong with the command before it gets to the xwit part.

Right now I'm just trying to get things to work. After I've done that, I'll configure an unprivileged user to run xinit.

I've just been using it like this with matchbox-window-manager and it's been working fine. So I had no reason to use startx.

Thanks for the tip.
Any ideas on how to maximize the window?

wmctrl should be able to full screen it. Midori has " -e Fullscreen " according to the xfce faq. Probably case sensitive. I tend to avoid using that one due to zeitgeist. Plus it was never that stable to begin with. Lots of other webkit browsers out there. Midori is probably the only one that looks and behaves like a traditional browser. Although uzbl, dwb, and others are probably more performant IMO.

$ wmctrl -lpG

$ wmctrl -r :SELECT: -b toggle,fullscreen

The -r :SELECT: basically does it to what you click next. I tend to be too lazy to figure out window IDs and names are fidgety if you have multiple things with the same title.