Hi. On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:18:32 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> When I open VMWare Player in Win 7 the window is not full screen. Now I > selected the option to "Enter full screen mode after powering on". This > is what happens, but Debian is booting and opening to a user (or as > root) in a smaller window. In order to get Debian full screen it is > necessary to toggle between "Exit full screen mode' and "enter full > screen mode" - usually several times. This is rather annoying. > > Is there a solution? So, let me rephrase. Some program running under Windows confuses you as it likes to change its window size. You'd like to change this behavior, but instead of using a direct approach (i.e. force the program in question to be always fullscreen), you try to find a workaround (i.e. forbid Debian to switch videomodes on boot). Sorry, but you came to the wrong place. This is Debian users' list, not Windows one. I doubt anyone can help you here, short of advising to ditch VMWare along with Windows altogether. Best I can personally offer is: 1) Ditch VMWare Player, use VirtualBox. VirtualBox may be not the best virtualization solution, but it should work under Windows. Maybe. It's been a long time since such things were of interest to me. 2) Force desired videomode in GRUB2 (I assume you use this bootloader to boot Debian) by adding to /etc/default/grub: GRUB_GFXMODE=<your_desired_screen_size_here_i_e_640x480> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep running 'update-grub' as root and rebooting Debian. 3) Reverse OSes. The natural way to run any kind of virtualization is to run Linux. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130210639.e3adb0733f4d20275ec42...@gmail.com
