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With vbox 6.0 full screen mode is only working with laptop native retina resolution making everything super small.
There is no problem with scaled mode when running Debian in a window.
It worked perfectly with vbox 5.x allowing different than native resolutions in full screen.
VirtualBox 6.0 beta1 - problems with full screen mode for Debian client
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Re: VirtualBox 6.0 beta1 - problems with full screen mode for Debian client
Meaning that you set the ScaleFactor to 200% or something like that?Darius123 wrote:There is no problem with scaled mode when running Debian in a window.
What does the "different than native resolutions in full screen" mean exactly? Can you give some more details?Darius123 wrote:It worked perfectly with vbox 5.x allowing different than native resolutions in full screen.
I've found that moving between the 5.2.97 development builds (what now became 6.0.0b1) and the 5.2.14-5.2.21 builds (maybe even earlier), I had to do the following:
- 5.2.x
VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/ScaleFactor
- 6.0.0
VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/ScaleFactor 2
Yes, it's a pain sometimes, especially if you switch back and forth between 6.0.0b1 and previous versions. Yes, they're working on it...
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Re: VirtualBox 6.0 beta1 - problems with full screen mode for Debian client
Thx for the hint. Indeed changing scale factor to 200 solved the issue. It was enough to set it using Vbox GUI in display options.
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Re: VirtualBox 6.0 beta1 - problems with full screen mode for Debian client
As I said in my previous post, that will change the per VM "<VM>.vbox" settings by changing the:Darius123 wrote:It was enough to set it using Vbox GUI in display options.
and if you do that, you are going to be finding yourself changing each and every VM when moving back and forth between 5.x.x and 6.x.x, or until this is addressed. The "global" setting is one for all...<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/ScaleFactor" value="x.yy"/>
BTW, I don't think that this should be at 200%, honestly. This is *not* a zoomed in version in my book, it's a normal setting that happens to run on a HiDPI display. There should be an additional check/setting, and the zoom factor determined as:
ZoomFactor = ( HiDPI + 1 ) × ScaleFactor
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