I am running FreeBSD 12.3 on VMWare 16.2. I have the latest versions of Xorg and XFCE installed. I want this machine to run XFCE as
And in order to make it run at startup, I appended this line to
I know the purists among you will strongly recommend against that and say things like running processes as
I have installed
My problem is that Xorg does not recognise all the resolutions that my screen supports and I am stuck with 1176x885, which is the highest supported. How can I get Xorg to run at 1920x1080?
root
since it serving any purpose other than development. To that end, I created the .xinitrc
file:
Code:
exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
And in order to make it run at startup, I appended this line to
/etc/crontab
:
Code:
@reboot root /usr/local/bin/startx
I know the purists among you will strongly recommend against that and say things like running processes as
root
might and will cause problems, but I can't be bothered to sudo
every time I'd like to try my code; so please let's not go there.I have installed
open-vm-tools
and I can copy-paste between the host and the guest.My problem is that Xorg does not recognise all the resolutions that my screen supports and I am stuck with 1176x885, which is the highest supported. How can I get Xorg to run at 1920x1080?