Solved Video resolution as guest on VirtualBox

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Luca79

I have FreeBSD/Openbox as guest on VirtualBox... i already use virtualbox-ose-addictions, and can get the ideal resolution using the command xrandr.
I wish to make this permanent, but don't know if i should add the xrandr comand to /boot/loader.conf.
 
Luca79 said:
but don't know if i should add the xrandr command to /boot/loader.conf
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A common way to execute X related scripts is the use of ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xprofile files in a user's home directory.
Put the line of code for xrandr in one of these files and it will be executed on every X startup to make settings permanent.
 
Add VBoxClient-all to your ~/.xinitrc (just before you start the WM/DE). Then your display will automagically resize to whatever the size of the virtualbox window is.
 
SirDice said:
Add VBoxClient-all to your ~/.xinitrc (just before you start the WM/DE). Then your display will automagically resize to whatever the size of the virtualbox window is.
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Hello SirDice, and how is the procedure, is it this way?

# vi ~/.xinitrc
Code: 
VBoxClient-all

Or of this form?

# vi ~/.xinitrc
Code: 
exec /usr/local/bin/VBoxClient-all

I remember I already tried VBoxClient-all and it didn't work on the virtualized machine for window managers.
 
SirDice said:
Don't exec(1) it. Only the last thing (usually your DE/WM) has to be exec(1)'ed.

Code: 
VBoxClient-All
exec your-wm
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The that way I don't function, as you can see the Seamless mode (Host+L) is not activated for window managers.

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