How do I change the resolution on openSUSE 13.1?
I am using ESXi 5.5, I have VMWare tools installed and the xrandr shows that I can hit 2560x1600 @ 60hz, I just want got up to 1280x1024 @ 60hz.
Thanks
well, you can use randr itself to do that … or you could use one of its front ends … but given that you didn’t mention what desktop you’re using, it makes it a little harder to provide an answer … i’ll pretend you’re using kde … in which case, just use kscreen … when you have it started up, next to the star icon is a box icon (with four arrows)…click on that and a drop down list should appear … man I hate its fisher-price interface.
Yes, sorry I am using KDE. I will check out what the KSCREEN and let you know if I get stuck.
Thanks,
On 2014-01-26 16:26, aenglish wrote:
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> How do I change the resolution on openSUSE 13.1?
>
> I am using ESXi 5.5, I have VMWare tools installed and the xrandr shows
> that I can hit 2560x1600 @ 60hz, I just want got up to 1280x1024 @ 60hz.
Is that a virtual installation, under vmware? You should just be able to
resize the window.
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(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Explain, resize the window?
I had a look at KDE and yes I can resize the panel (start bar) but I don’t see anything that allows me to change the X resolution to something like 1024x768 or higher from 800x600.
Just resize the VMWare window, and the resolution of the VM inside should be changed accordingly.
It might also help to set the console resolution in YaST->System->Boot Loader->Boot Loader Options to something else than “Autodetect by Grub2”, but I’m not sure if the vmware driver respects that (fbdev does) or sets its own.
Thanks I will have to give this a try with the boot loader. Right now I can’t restart openSUSE as I have my bitcoin pool running and restarting it would restart the whole mining process again.
As for resizing the VMWare window, that might work WMWare Workstation but it doesn’t work in ESXi server, it never has worked in ESX or ESXi servers. Not with linux nor Windows Servers.
Thanks,
On 2014-01-28 13:26, aenglish wrote:
> As for resizing the VMWare window, that might work WMWare Workstation
> but it doesn’t work in ESXi server, it never has worked in ESX or ESXi
> servers. Not with linux nor Windows Servers.
Oh.
It works with vmware player, certainly. Sometimes it doesn’t work right
after the initial guest installation, till the size is changed manually
from inside. There is some trigger that allows it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
VMWare Player isn’t VMWare ESXi Server. 
On Tue 28 Jan 2014 03:36:01 PM CST, aenglish wrote:
robin_listas;2620072 Wrote:
> On 2014-01-28 13:26, aenglish wrote:
>
> > As for resizing the VMWare window, that might work WMWare
> > Workstation but it doesn’t work in ESXi server, it never has worked
> > in ESX or ESXi servers. Not with linux nor Windows Servers.
>
> Oh.
> It works with vmware player, certainly. Sometimes it doesn’t work
> right after the initial guest installation, till the size is changed
> manually from inside. There is some trigger that allows it.
>
> –
> Cheers / Saludos,
>
> Carlos E. R.
> (from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
VMWare Player isn’t VMWare ESXi Server.
Hi
I normally just run;
xrandr -s 1280x1024
If that works, just create a script and stick it in the autostart
group…
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Or just set the resolution in your Desktop’s configuration tool, like KDE’s systemsettings or GNOME’s gnome-control-center.
If xrandr shows the resolution, it should be available there too, since they also just use xrandr.
Hi
It’s a vmware quirk, or perhaps a DE quirk when connecting to headless systems. I had it when connecting via Nx even though the system resolution was set as well as using the Nx setting to set the resolution. I don’t see it with kvm which I use now, it respects the display settings via Nx.
On 2014-01-28 16:36, aenglish wrote:
> VMWare Player isn’t VMWare ESXi Server. 
True, it is not. It is the little brother of Workstation.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)