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touchymbone

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Registered: 2022-07-28

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Openbox wm in vmware workstation resolution/scaling problem.

Hello,

I installed openbox on archlinux in vmware workstation 16, but the problem is that everything from text, icons and cursor is too small to be able to work comfortably.
My host machine resolution is 3840x2400, and with an Nvidia T1200 Laptop gpu.
xrandr output of the virtual machine is:

mpanic@milan-vmwarevirtualplatform ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 1 x 1, current 3840 x 2400, maximum 8192 x 8192
Virtual1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   3840x2400     60.00*+  59.97  
   3840x2160     59.97  
   2880x1800     59.95  
   ...

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The resolution is 1920x1200 because I have the x2 scaling which I set by running the scaling xrandr command:

xrandr --output Virtual1 --scale 0.5x0.5

And now comes the problem that I posted this question for.
The text and the icons are now a little pixelated, which for software engineering is not acceptable.

I tried to fix it by increasing the dpi, but the command returns something I don't understand, and I need help with it.

[mpanic@milan-vmwarevirtualplatform ~]$ xrandr --dpi 192/Virtual1
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  141 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  7 (RRSetScreenSize)
  Serial number of failed request:  56
  Current serial number in output stream:  58

This only happens if I have it scaled.

Last edited by touchymbone (2022-07-28 18:12:25)