{"id":630,"date":"2014-06-10T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/TimOnCS\/?p=630"},"modified":"2014-06-10T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:41:57","slug":"virtualbox-window-sizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/2014\/06\/10\/virtualbox-window-sizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox Window Sizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across this in my (seems to be never ending) search for larger resolution virtual machines running Ubuntu.  This time running under Virtualbox in a server connected to tiny monitor (1680&#215;1050).<\/p>\n<p>From the VirtualBox OS (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in my case), run:<\/p>\n<pre>\nxdotool search --name \"window name\" windowsize 1600 1200\n<\/pre>\n<p>An actual command line where my virtual machine was called &#8220;ub1404.64 lts snap22&#8221;:<\/p>\n<pre>\n# xdotool search --name \"ub1404*\" windowsize 1600 1200\n<\/pre>\n<p>After that, the outer virtual machine console window resized to 1600&#215;1200.  Then, Ubuntu running in that VM resized itself to 1600&#215;1200.  Then, the remote desktop connection (using VNC viewer in my case) connected at 1600&#215;1200.<\/p>\n<p>You can install the xdotool application with (# apt-get install xdotool).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across this in my (seems to be never ending) search for larger resolution virtual machines running Ubuntu. This time running under Virtualbox in a server connected to tiny monitor (1680&#215;1050). From the VirtualBox OS (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/2014\/06\/10\/virtualbox-window-sizing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}