On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 23:00 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
Putting the following section in xorg.conf caused Gnome under Xorg to start with the resolution of the Maximized vmware player, which was 1600x844, as desired. KDE did not start at the resolution of 1600x844, instead starting at 640x480, but the display configuration facility including 1600x844 as one of the resolutions it now provided, which then switched KDE into the desired resolution.
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" # HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 # VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Modeline "1600x844_60.00" 110.75 1600 1696 1856 2112 844 847 857 876 -hsync +vsync Option "PreferredMode" "1600x844_60.00" Option "DPMS" EndSection
Glad it worked out.
Note that if you actually want to use the Nvidia card to its full capability within a VM, you need to use GPU passthrough. AFAIK this currently cannot be done in VMware or Virtual Box, only on KVM/QEMU. It's something of a hassle to set up and depends on certain features of your motherboard and BIOS, but I use it to run Windows games and it works very well.
poc