Screen changed to low resolution - Fixed (sort of)

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micksuley
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Joined: 25. Apr 2011, 09:33
Primary OS: Ubuntu other
VBox Version: OSE Debian
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Screen changed to low resolution - Fixed (sort of)

Post by micksuley »

Host is Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon. I have several guests, Mint, Ubuntu and Windows. All of them have changed in the last few days, the display is now low resolution, the arrow pointer flashes in a random manner and there is a black box around it. My screen is actually 1920 X 1200, but the guest screen defaults to 960 X 542, if I change it to 1920 X 1200 the taskbar at the bottom of the screen is no longer visible.

It was working fine until a few days ago, any idea how to fix it?

Thanks
Mick
Last edited by micksuley on 20. Jun 2020, 11:24, edited 1 time in total.
micksuley
Posts: 30
Joined: 25. Apr 2011, 09:33
Primary OS: Ubuntu other
VBox Version: OSE Debian
Guest OSses: xp

Re: Screen changed to low resolution - Fixed (sort of)

Post by micksuley »

Well I still have no idea of the cause, but I just created a new user on my desktop (the host) and created a VB for Mint 20 in there and it works fine!

So it seems that something is screwed with my user setup on the host, so not a VM problem!
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