How to persist my display resolution and polybar weirdness? (BSPWM community running in Boxes)

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I freshly installed the BSPWM community edition in a virtual machine
And the default res is 1024x768
Then I set it to 1920x1080 and the polybar doesn’t scale, also the wallpaper is repeating
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And also the change doesn’t persist, I have to set resolution every time after boot.

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Welcome! :wave:

To persist resolution, see Resolution and Arandr section → Beginner's Quick Start Guide to Endeavour OS Bspwm Edition

Pressing Mod+Alt+r to reload Bspwm as I’ve mentioned there, should fix wallpaper and polybar width. Feel free to ask if you have any queries regarding the process.

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Thanks for that very quick response! Its fixed.

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  1. $ sudo vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

  2. look for “display-setup-script” it will be commented out

  3. make it: display-setup-script=xrandr --output Virtual-1 --mode 1920x1080

When you reboot, it should set your resolution without having to use the Welcome Screen.

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I’m using sddm not lightdm will look for a solution for that.
Thanks :+1:

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