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    device-qemu-*: set a default resolution for X11 (MR 5712) · a8a4d06f
    Jakko authored and Clayton Craft's avatar Clayton Craft committed
    Qemu by default starts a GTK window in VGA resolution 640x480. The content
    adapts to this resolution, thus X11 shows up in resolution 640x480 as well.
    
    This resolution causes some handling issues. In Xfce4 the shutdown button of
    the menu isn't reachable. Even worse in MATE, where the "Apply" button for
    changing the resolution is out of the screen, making it difficult to change
    the resolution.
    
    The default resolution for X11 can be set by a config file. The Qemu GTK
    window resolution remains independently at default 640x480. Setting the X11
    resolution to default 800x600 mitigates the issue: Most of the screen content
    becomes accessible while font size and button sizes are still large enough.
    From this point the user can adjust the resolutions of the Qemu GTK window
    and X11 content as desired.
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    device-qemu-*: set a default resolution for X11 (MR 5712)
    Jakko authored and Clayton Craft's avatar Clayton Craft committed
    Qemu by default starts a GTK window in VGA resolution 640x480. The content
    adapts to this resolution, thus X11 shows up in resolution 640x480 as well.
    
    This resolution causes some handling issues. In Xfce4 the shutdown button of
    the menu isn't reachable. Even worse in MATE, where the "Apply" button for
    changing the resolution is out of the screen, making it difficult to change
    the resolution.
    
    The default resolution for X11 can be set by a config file. The Qemu GTK
    window resolution remains independently at default 640x480. Setting the X11
    resolution to default 800x600 mitigates the issue: Most of the screen content
    becomes accessible while font size and button sizes are still large enough.
    From this point the user can adjust the resolutions of the Qemu GTK window
    and X11 content as desired.
    [ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
resolution-qemu-X11.conf 107 B