Debian GUI is Larger than monitor?

[M-88]

I've been working on a few projects lately (virtually sun virtualbox) with Debian.

When I'm doing net install (from my repository) I select the desktop package - this gives me a GUI.

Once intalled and I boot to the GUI, it comes up in the Virtual Machine much, much larger than my screen resolution. I have to side scroll and vertical scroll on a 1280x800 monitor.

I've never had this problem on a physical install before.

TYIA
M88

[MikeTbob]

I've been working on a few projects lately (virtually sun virtualbox) with Debian.

When I'm doing net install (from my repository) I select the desktop package - this gives me a GUI.

Once intalled and I boot to the GUI, it comes up in the Virtual Machine much, much larger than my screen resolution. I have to side scroll and vertical scroll on a 1280x800 monitor.

I've never had this problem on a physical install before.

TYIA
M88

You probably need to adjust the Monitor settings somewhere. I'm not familiar with Debian so you'll have to locate it yourself, but there should be a way to change the display settings and resolution. Or you could edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, for this you'll need the monitor settings from the manual.

[jackdaws]

This may work: You could try editing the file "Xsetup", which is somewhere in your home directory (depending on the desktop environment you use), adding the following line:

xrandr -s 1280x960 --rate 75 &

This should give you a pretty standard display. If you're not using a display manager, such as GDM or KDM, you can edit the file /etc/X11/Xsession and add the lines there.

[M-88]

I tried changing the settings thorugh the GUI before and it usually sets to the right resolution after I log in.

But when I first boot it up to the GUI it comes up much larger than the screen. Would editing a file in a user's home directory help with the problem?

[MikeTbob]

I tried changing the settings thorugh the GUI before and it usually sets to the right resolution after I log in.

But when I first boot it up to the GUI it comes up much larger than the screen. Would editing a file in a user's home directory help with the problem?

Did you try the suggestion from jackdaws as posted above? Try that and see if it helps, if not then you could try this if you use Grub bootloader then you can use Grub to set the screen sizes I believe. Add something like vga=791. Here is a short listing of Grub VGA Modes.

800x600x8		771		
800x600x16		788		
800x600x32		789		
1024x768x8		773		
1024x768x16		791		
1024x768x32		792		
1280x800x8		864		
1280x800x32		865		
1440x900x8		868		
1440x900x32		869

[M-88]

I'll probably have to wait until Sunday night / monday morning.

The computer with all of the VMs is packed away in the car awaiting my return to college. But I will be sure to try these, particularly the edit to GRUB when I get back.