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From: James Chapman <james@cs.ioc.ee>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] resizing desktops under vmware vs. parallels
Date: Sun,  5 Sep 2010 10:54:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimYT-PeFPhW+9oxO16sRPztNMhEVpc5ifqrTTvt@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c3a75294188515e96114ab27845d96d@gandalf.orthanc.ca>

monitor=cinema
vgasize=1280x768x24

works for me.

James

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
<lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> [ Let me try again, this time hitting Post vs |fmt :-) ]
>
> For ages I've run diskless terminals under Parallels, and aux/vga would
> quite cheerfully resize the Parallels window to match anything I told it.
>
> Recently I had to migrate from Parallels to Fusion.  Resizing doesn't
> work any more.  Furthermore, I'm buggered if I can programmatically
> figure out what combinations of screen size+depth will work in Fusion
> without making the terminal instance panic.  The list archives and the
> wiki are absent of advice.  Looking at the aux/vga output I also can't
> parse a set of likely screen dimension values.  Has anyone else
> successfully wrestled with this?
>
>
>



      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-05  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-05  2:29 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-09-05  7:54 ` James Chapman [this message]

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