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Thanks for all of your help.<br>
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After installing the guest additions, I did the following in the
terminal:<br>
xrandr --newmode "1440x900" 60.0 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932
-HSync +VSync<br>
xrandr --addmode VBOX1 1440x900<br>
xrandr --output VBOX1 --mode 1440x900<br>
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This gave me a great screen size. My monitor is set at 1680x1050.<br>
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Pippy displays great. Terminal shows fine.<br>
the main screen however displays in the upper left corner taking up
amount 2/3 horizontal & vertical of the window, but the rest of the
screen is black. The outer 'menu' only appears when the mouse goes to
the upper left corner, or the top of the screen right at the split
between the white/black background.<br>
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I have attached a screenshot (GIMP) to illustrate what I'm talking
about.<br>
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The only problem is this change is not persistent. I'm not sure where
to make this change so the screen size I want is what I get upon
startup. I've seen some comments online about editing Grub at startup,
but I'm not sure how to do this. Is there a way to make the above
lines of 'xrandr' into a script and automatically run it on every
startup?<br>
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Thanks again for all of your help.<br>
Kevin Petursson<br>
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Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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<div>1200x900 is not a standard VESA resolution so no emulator offers
it by default. I don't think it would be impossible to add to
VirtualBox or Qemu (it's open-source after all) but I can't remember
anyone ever doing that.</div>
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<div>What I do know is that with a tweaked xorg.conf and the VMWare
display drivers you can get 1200x900 in VMWare:</div>
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<div>Something similar may work in VirtualBox too, but I don't know
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<div>On 27.02.2010, at 07:04, Kevin Petursson wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Thanks.<br>
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I installed the guest additions and was then able to set screen size to
1024x768. Using xrandr i'm only given a couple of options for screen
size, 1024x768, 800x600. Is there a way to get SaoS to allow me more
choices? or is this a limitation of Vitrualbox, and should I look at
trying a different virtual machine program? Your help and advice is
greatly appriciated.<br>
<br>
Kevin.<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">Tom, you're a whiz with VMs :-) perhaps you have advice for Kevin?
thanks
Sean
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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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