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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by Juanito on September 30, 2026, 06:28:13 AM »

I tried setting the resolution to 1920x1080 using virtualbox preferences, but the setting is ignored as per xrandr.

You could try something analagous to this within the guest:

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Section "Device"
        Identifier      "broadcom"
        Driver         "modesetting"
        Option          "HDMI-1" "u2720q"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "u2720q"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device        "broadcom"
        Monitor       "u2720q"
        DefaultDepth  24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth          24
                Modes         "1920x1080" "1280x1024"  "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection..which sets the monitor to 1920x1080

Note that I've tried setting 3d acceleration, but this causes the guest to hang as soon as graphics-KERNEL is loaded. Without it llvmpipe software acceleration is used.

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General TC Talk / Re: Tying to get VIM to work as intended

« Last post by Rich on September 29, 2026, 03:36:30 PM »

Hi MaxFury
Maybe see if  rxvt  is any better:

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Title:          rxvt.tcz
Project:        rxvt
Description:    Unicode and 265-color VT102 terminal emulator
Version:        9.31
Author:         Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de>
Original-site:  http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
Copying-policy: GPL v3
Size:           308K
Extension_by:   andyj
Tags:           TERMINAL UNICODE 256 COLOR XFT TRUETYPE
Comments:       Binaries only
                Supports Unicode, true type fonts, and 256 colors
                ----
Change-log:     2017/07/01 first version, compiled for TC 8.x
                2018/01/12 added patches for font rendering, recompiled for TC 9.x
                2018/05/29 recompiled for ncursesw library
                2019/01/21 recompiled for TC 10.x
                2019/07/06 moved urxvtd from rxvt-doc.tcz
Current:        2023/12/12 updated to version 9.31

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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by Juanito on September 29, 2026, 03:29:24 PM »

Not a big deal, but you can remove Xorg-7.7, Xorg-7.7-3d will load it.

Remember to put the hd as the first boot device or virtualbox will load the iso again

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General TC Talk / Tying to get VIM to work as intended

« Last post by MaxFury on September 29, 2026, 02:40:16 PM »

I find that the font of the default terminal (aterm) to be so good! But when I use VIM, I think because the terminal only support a small number
of colours, the colorscheme such as onedark looks off and awful. Is it possible to fix that? Also, I tried to use LXterminal, it seems that's the other option for
terminal, the default font is not nearly as good. Is it possible to either make the default terminal support more colours, or use the
same font for aterm or xterm in LXterminal?

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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by MaxFury on September 29, 2026, 02:37:24 PM »

Ok I am gonna start over.
So after I TC install GUI, remove all those onboot things, then install these and have only them in onboot?

Xorg-7.7
graphics-KERNEL
vbox-KERNEL
Xorg-7.7-3d
flwm, aterm and wbar

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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by MaxFury on September 29, 2026, 02:23:48 PM »

Did you use tc-install-GUI to install tinycore to the vm hard drive?

Yes I did. I used the whole drive, not frugal install

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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by Juanito on September 29, 2026, 02:23:32 PM »

Sure, but when you then use tc-install the resulting installation has nothing set onboot.

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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by Rich on September 29, 2026, 02:20:25 PM »

Hi Juanito
When installing from an ISO, everything gets thrown into
onboot because there are no  .dep  files included.

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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by Juanito on September 29, 2026, 02:19:40 PM »

Did you use tc-install-GUI to install tinycore to the vm hard drive?

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Tiny Core on Virtual Machines / Re: I would like to enable 1080p resolution

« Last post by MaxFury on September 29, 2026, 02:16:20 PM »

those things came out of nowhere after I install tc install gui i think,