[SoaS] Fwd: Blueberry Screen Resolution

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi....

A quick check running Strawberry on my MacBook shows no problem changing resolution through the System Preferences tool... Displays.  I figured it would work since I did it during my SoaS presentation at SCaLE 8x.  Just double checked. It does.

Caryl

> From: bert at freudenbergs.de
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:34:50 +0100
> To: sdaly at sugarlabs.org
> CC: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org; thalon at mymts.net
> Subject: Re: [SoaS] Fwd: Blueberry Screen Resolution
> 
> I think changing the resolution in the Terminal activity should work - enter
> 
> 	xrandr -s 1024x768
> 
> I'm not sure if Virtual Box supports the non-standard 1200x900 resolution. VMWare does, in OLPC images there used to be a xorg-vmware.conf for that purpose. Have not tried with SoaS though.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> On 26.02.2010, at 17:06, Sean Daly wrote:
> > 
> > Tom, you're a whiz with VMs :-) perhaps you have advice for Kevin?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Kevin Petursson <thalon at mymts.net>
> > Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:58 AM
> > Subject: Blueberry Screen Resolution
> > To: feedback at sugarlabs.org
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am running Blueberry release in Sun Virtual Box Environment on a
> > Windows XP machine.  I tried to use the Pippy python programming
> > application but was unable to see very much of the left hand column of
> > what seem to be example folders/programs.  Is there a way to increase
> > the screen resolution to 1200x900 (XO native resolution) from the
> > default 800x600?
> > 
> > So far my kids (7 and 4) both love using this OS.  Although at this
> > point they see it a just another program.  Keep up the good work.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Kevin Petursson
> > Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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