SOLVED – Permanently set screen res in VirtualBox

[Member Mark_B]

Hi.. I have antiX running in VirtualBox with Win10 Pro as host. All seems well but I cannot see how to permanently set antiX to run at 1920×1080. I can change screen res using the antiX Control Centre/Set Screen Resolution(ARandR) but this only lasts during the current session.
A kick in the ankle followed by a little enlightenment would be much appreciated 🙂

• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Mark_B.

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I would recommend using the virtualbox-guest-utils service so it can auto-adjust the resolution depending on the window size. Once installed (already installed on antiX base and full)
sudo service virtualbox-guest-utils start
to start the service and, if nothing happens,
VBoxClient --vmsvga &
to start the VBoxClient auto-resolution program

For your specific case (if you DONT want auto-resolution), when using the program you mention (arandr), select to save the layout (for example, as default.sh in the default .screenlayout folder), and add this to the second line (under #!/bin/bash) in your startup file (Control Centre > Session > User Desktop-Session – startup):

# Set the screen resoultion at startup
$HOME/.screenlayout/default.sh

EDIT: Other method – https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/changing-screen-resolution/

• This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Xecure.

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You are an absolute star.. thank you. That works exactly how I wanted it, and I understood it too 🙂

HP Omen 17"-144Hz
i7-9750H(12) 2.6/5.0GHz 16GB Ram
500GB M.2 NVMe & 2TB EVO SSD
i630/nVidia GTX 1650

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