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thdn

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Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 13

Weird LXDE Desktop Resolution

I've installed Arch + LXDE on a VirtualBox machine, no big issues but resolution is weird. Here is two images one is from Arch installation and the other from Debian for comparrison.

Arch + LXDE

Arch

Debian

I've already installed virtualbox-host-modules-arch virtualbox-guest-utils but no changes, I'm missing some package or configuration ?

Any clue ?

Last edited by thdn (2017-11-24 00:34:15)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,728

Re: Weird LXDE Desktop Resolution

Please convert these to thumbnails or urls instead of full sized pictures.

What have you done to determine your current resolution? What information do you get from xrandr? That said this looks more like a font issue to me, which fonts do you have installed and configured

thdn

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Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 13

Re: Weird LXDE Desktop Resolution

xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 960, maximum 16384 x 16384
VGA-1 connected primary 1280x960+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   800x600       59.96 +  60.32    56.25 
   2560x1600     59.99    59.97 
   1920x1440     60.00 
   1856x1392     60.00 
   1792x1344     60.00 
   2048x1152     60.00 
   1920x1200     59.88    59.95 
   1920x1080     60.00 
   1600x1200     60.00 
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88 
   1400x1050     59.98    59.95 
   1600x900      60.00 
   1280x1024     60.02 
   1440x900      59.89    59.90 
   1280x960      60.00*
   1366x768      59.79    60.00 
   1360x768      60.02 
   1280x800      59.81    59.91 
   1280x768      59.87    59.99 
   1280x720      60.00 
   1024x768      60.00 
   848x480       60.00 
   640x480       59.94

Yeah, definitely it looks like a font problem, and didn't installed /configured any font yet, should I ?  I thought LXDE  came with batteries / fonts included

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: Weird LXDE Desktop Resolution

Yeah, definitely it looks like a font problem, and didn't installed /configured any font yet, should I ?  I thought LXDE  came with batteries / fonts included

How did you install LXDE? You can check the file list for the package(s) you installed to see if there are fonts included. If you installed the lxde package, I don't see fonts in the package.

Generally speaking, Arch is not a "batteries included" distro. Most people like it this way.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2017-11-24 00:53:02)