:wq - blog » parallels http://writequit.org/blog Tu fui, ego eris Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:54:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.5 How to enable 1280×800 resolution in Parallels for X11 http://writequit.org/blog/2008/01/31/how-to-enable-1280x800-resolution-in-parallels-for-x11/ http://writequit.org/blog/2008/01/31/how-to-enable-1280x800-resolution-in-parallels-for-x11/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:09:45 +0000 http://writequit.org/blog/?p=142 This topic really sucks to search for, way too many different results without any actual clarity, so here’s how I was able to get it working:

Firstly, power down the image and edit the configuration options for your image, click on the “Video options”. Check ‘Enable custom screen resolutions’ and add the resolution (in this case, 1280×800). Make sure the resolution is enabled (checked). See the screenshot below for an example of what it should look like:

custom1280

Next, boot into the VM image and let’s take a look at the xorg.conf file, here are the lines I changed that actually matter:

#HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
#VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
#Option "DPMS"
ModeLine "1280x800" 80.58 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 827 -HSync -VSync

These should be in the section right after ‘Section “Monitor”‘. After changing the hsync and vsync as well as adding the mode, I changed the display section from:

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

to:
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

It’s a good idea to change the modes for each of the depths (at least 8, 15, 16 and 24) also.

After rebooting (or killing X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace), your screen should come up in 1280×800 resolution. Hurray!

You can see an example of my desktop setup for Hex 1.0.3-RC2 here:

wholedesk

You can get a copy of my entire xorg.conf file here. (Note that in this xorg.conf, CapsLock is remapped to additional control because I hate capslock with a passion).

Hope this helps someone out there :)

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