Hello, this is not a support request, but -for my first time- a topic that might help others.
After the last update round yesterday, my VM size was not 1680 x 974 anymore, but 1280 x 800.
It pointed out that Manjaro switched from X11 to Wayland.
As X11 support is going to end in near future anyway, I decided to investigate new options to set a custom resolution.
For anyone with a Manjaro VM in VMware having the same issue and not being a linux expert, here is what I found.
There seems to be no configuration file where resolutions can be added. The xrandr procedure is just for X11.
With the right combination of search words I found a topic on askubuntu that inspired me.
- Copy your VM first, just because you can, and you are going to edit a boot file, so…
- Find the name of your display in case you don’t know:
inxi -v8 - In the Graphics section of the output, after "active: " the name of your device is show, in my case that was Virtual-1, that was unchanged.
- Then add a line to /etc/default/grub, in my case:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“video=Virtual-1:1680x974@60”
Replace Virtual-1 with your display name and 1680x974 with the resolution you want. - Activate the change with:
sudo update-grub - After a reboot the VM is still 1280 x 800, but you can select your desired size:
Richt-click the desktop, select Display configuration, in the Resolution list the added resolution 1680 x 974 can be selected, then press Apply.
After that I had to redefine all my Window rules for desired windows sizes and positions of frequently used programs since they didn’t work anymore.
Happy Xmas
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