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Resolution is set wrong

Post by Steffo »

Hi,
I'm using VM Ware 14 and Linux Mint 19 Xfce. When I'm setting a resolution higher than 800 x 600, then only the menu gets stretched.
I attached an example with the resolution 1024 x 768.

Any ideas what I can do?

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Resolution is set wrong

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Try VirtualBox instead of VMware. Don't forget to install the packages virtualbox-guest-x11 and virtualbox-guest-dkms in the Linux Mint VM.
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Re: Resolution is set wrong

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I don't know if this helps for VMWare but for VirtualBox I can't set the display resolution with Xfce configuration manager, it just crashes. So I set resolution with xrandr from command line. That works on VirtualBox.

For example to set 1024x768 resolution:
xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1024x768

VGA-1 is the name of the display device on my setup. Check by just running xrandr what the active display device name is on your install.
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Re: Resolution is set wrong

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Same problem here with VMware Fusion 10.1 on macOS High Sierra. Any solution?

P.S.: tried to change resolution with

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xrandr --output Virtual1 --mode 1024x768
but same problem...
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Re: Resolution is set wrong

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I (temporarily) solved the problem by disabling 3D graphics acceleration in VMWare Fusion's settings...
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