Problem with 11.2 in VMWare player
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From: Robert Flint on 17 Mar 2010 08:55 "LSMFT" <boleyn7(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:hz3on.517$gF5.513(a)newsfe13.iad... > On 03/17/2010 05:04 AM, Robert Flint wrote: >> "LSMFT" <boleyn7(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> news:NGTnn.75052$1n5.22629(a)newsfe04.iad... >>> Robert Flint wrote: >>>> I have installed the 32 bit version of 11.2 into a virtual machine >>>> running >>>> on VMWare player on 32 bit Windows XP. The install went fine and the VM >>>> works correctly but for one problem. The VM appears in quite a small >>>> window >>>> and if I increase the window size by dragging it or by maximising it I >>>> run >>>> into a problem with the VM's fonts. The fonts on the destop and the >>>> panel >>>> are fine but fonts in applications become enormous. This includes >>>> Firefox, >>>> Yast and ordinary terminal windows. It seems that the fonts increase in >>>> size >>>> in proportion to the increase in size of the overall window yet if I >>>> check >>>> the font settings for the terminal or in Yast they are still set to 9 >>>> or >>>> 10 >>>> point. I have the VMWare tools package installed. >>>> >>>> Any advice would be appreciated. >>>> >>>> ROB >>>> >>>> >>> You need to download and install vmware tools for linux, then go into >>> desktop settings (in linux) and select one that fits your screen. >>> >>> -- >> >> Already done both of those, I'm afraid.............. >> >> ROB >> >> > I've found that Vmware player is somewhat quirky on Suse where > Virtualbox is much better. > Vmware Player seems to work better on a Windows host. > > -- > LSFT > It is certainly true that Windows seems to work better as a guest. I have now installed SLED11 as a guest in vmplayer, and that works fine, with none of the font issues seen with openSUSE 11.2. ROB
From: Robert Wittams on 21 Mar 2010 16:16 I just installed this on VMware fusion on an imac. It looks like the open vmtools are a bit broken with respect to screensize. What this means is, it resizes the number of pixels, keeps the screensize the same, thus leading to a stupidly high value for dots per inch. ( 300) . You can see this in xdpyinfo. I took a random guess and hardcoded the dpi to 108. vi /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers put a "-dpi 108" argument to the X command , like :0 local /usr/bin/X -dpi 108 -nolisten tcp -br vt7 Restart kdm ( or the whole vm is probably easier). It looks a lot better but still a bit rubbish... won't dynamically adjust dpi. Not sure this really matters. Its also got some terrible keymap thing going on...
From: Robert Wittams on 21 Mar 2010 16:18 Argh. This only worked for some arbitrary subset of programs.. Firefox and kinfocentre, but not dolphin... bah.
From: Robert Flint on 24 Mar 2010 07:55 "Robert Wittams" <robert.wittams(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:201effe2-a30c-4cae-bc4e-da69f44c6246(a)b7g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > Argh. This only worked for some arbitrary subset of programs.. Firefox > and kinfocentre, but not dolphin... > bah. Interesting that SLED11 seems to work fine. I wonder what has changed? ROB
From: Andy on 25 Mar 2010 01:05
On Mar 24, 6:55 pm, "Robert Flint" <R.C.Fl...(a)nospam.com> wrote: > "Robert Wittams" <robert.witt...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:201effe2-a30c-4cae-bc4e-da69f44c6246(a)b7g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > > > Argh. This only worked for some arbitrary subset of programs.. Firefox > > and kinfocentre, but not dolphin... > > bah. > > Interesting that SLED11 seems to work fine. I wonder what has changed? > > ROB Hi Rob, I just tried to reproduce the problem you describe, but I didn't see anything wrong. My environment: Host: Windows Vista Business (32 bit) SP2 VMware Player: 3.0.1 build 227600, with its recommended Linux tools Guest: OpenSuSE 11.2 (32 bit) What I see when I resize VMware's window by dragging its borders: All the applications' windows that are maximized are also resized on the fly, but the fonts don't change of size. So for example if I had Kwrite maximized and displaying some very long text and I enlarge VMware's window by dragging on its border, I get to see even more text within Kwrite's window. If a Linux application's window wasn't maximized and I enlarge VMware's window, then the Linux application doesn't change anything. I tried the above with Kwrite, Firefox, and Dolphin. Cheers, Andy |