On 2017-09-26, Nicolas Kovacs
<info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a very weird problem with CentOS as a VirtualBox guest. Let
> me explain it step by step.
>
> tl;dr: I can install VirtualBox Guest Additions and configure a
> fullscreen 1280x1024 graphical resolution on a full install, but not
> on a reduced install with a lightweight window manager.
>
> Here's what I did.
>
> 1. Install vanilla CentOS 7 with KDE.
>
> 2. Boot to reduced 1024x768 resolution.
>
> 3. Install gcc, make and kernel-devel.
>
> 4. Build VirtualBox Guest Additions.
>
> 5. Reboot to full 1280x1024 resolution. ==> perfect
>
> On a vanilla desktop installation, this works perfectly. Now here's my
> second attempt.
>
> 1. Install minimal CentOS 7.
>
> 2. Install X11: yum groupinstall "X Window System"
>
> 3. Install WindowMaker from Nux repo.
>
> 4. Launch WindowMaker (startx) to reduced 1024x768 resolution.
>
> 5. Install gcc, make and kernel-devel.
>
> 6. Build VirtualBox Guest Additions.
>
> 7. Reboot and still have a reduced 1024x768 resolution. ==> meh
>
> I made another attempt with Xfce instead of WindowMaker (yum
> autoremove WindowMaker && yum groupinstall Xfce), but with the same
> result.
>
> Any idea what's going on here?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
When you open the Xfce display settings[1], is a resolution higher than
1024x768 available?
1: http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/display
--
Liam
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