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hit xrandr with NO options. it'll tell you your choices of resolution that are supported.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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teetering on into programming or system questions, so I did that. Still working on the cut/paste issue, but that little feature was lost in the noise. Maybe the most useful feature. With linux, one does not run random commands like "rm -f /.*" or however you ruin your day.  So, I would never have thought of that. But I'm getting back into the pool, it's going to be 95 here today, so I'm going to the pool.
The part that interests me is why xrandr would not detect a display at 2560x1440?
This smells like a VMware tools issue... working it.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yeah xrandr will only offer you what the underlying driver supports, and that can be many layers removed from the hardware.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: what the underlying driver supports, and that can be many layers removed from the hardware
Ooh, the irony  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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This may be a VMWare thing. Have you installed Open VM Tools yet on the Guest OS?
Jeremy Falcon
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trying. the machine I'm working on has vmplayer, the other machine has my licensed version of workstation pro, they don't play the same. I'm more familiar with workstation.
but I agree. Digging through it. I smell my first article coming on.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 27-Aug-24 8:02am.
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I've not found a VM that works for me presently except WSL.
VMWare is glitchy as hell these days. For example I go to backspace, and it keeps feeding backspaces into the buffer even after I've release the key. I have to kill VM Ware to make it stop. Two different PCs.
VirtualBox has bad issues capturing USB. It works with some devices, but not others.
WSL fails because of their removable storage hack, but you can work around it by recompiling the kernel and then exposing your removable storage from the windows side as an iSCSI device. From there you can connect in WSL like any other block device, format it with linux fs etc.
Of all of those issues, the last one is the most manageable.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: VirtualBox has bad issues capturing USB. It works with some devices, but not others.
I had VirtualBox for a long time, using it mainly to test our installers. The IT gestapo found out and I had to uninstall it. They wanted me to use VMWare instead, but their install using our corporate license always failed  .
Debugging an installer issue now requires re-imaging a test machine with fresh Windows 10/11 in a lab 300 feet down the hallway, testing the install, trudging back to my desk and fixing the issue, lather-rinse-repeat  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Oh that's horrible, and makes me grateful I work out of my home.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I do get my steps in, however.
This completely ignores the 4-5 miles I run at lunchtime three days a week, so...
Software Zen: delete this;
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obligatory: x.com[^]
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Install Ubuntu on a stick, boot from it, and see which options it offers. If it's different from the VM, you know where the problem lies.
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well that's just brilliant. I can do that (as he glances at his box full of usb sticks) 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I mentioned in your previous thread about running from a stick. I've got several using different distros that I've played with. Balena Etcher is what I used last time (I think).
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I wouldn't run GNU\Linux in a VM unless I really had to. It runs well in a Hyper-V VM, but honestly, I would rather run GNU\Linux native and then run Win 10/11 in a QEMU/KVM host. I would run it as the Host OS and avoid MS Windows. The only think I really need MS Windows for is Cubase and AquaKitty UDX.
AVLinux used to be a really good GNU\Linux distro until the maintainer switched over to the enlightenment engine. His old engine that I think was based on XFCE was better IMO and there were less bugs. Now I just use Debian which isn't as good as the old AVLinux that was based on Debian. I think Pipewire might already be installed and somewhat configure in the new AVLinux and that's a massive plus, but I like the old window manager.
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Yeah, same here. I run MX Linux as my main OS and Windows 11 in a QEMU/KVM based VM. Works really well. I also do GPU passthrough so I can play my Steam/GOG games in the VM.
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I have a text file that stores data and each data is fixed size.
I know that a name fiels is 10 caracters wide , and then the age is 3 caracters wide.
For example (dot represent the end of line for clarity)
Max 13 .
Suzanne 34 .
John Paul 66 .
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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thanks.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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File with fixed field records. They date back to at least FORTRAN where read (and write) statements had a “FORMAT” statement describing the “fields”. The easiest ones to write where those with fixed fields.
Mircea
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C++ Standard Template Library makes it easy plus a few pesky details even w/o help from an AI agent.
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int lineBreakLength = 2;
int nameFieldLength = 11;
int ageFieldLength = 3;
basic_ifstream<char> _ifstream(L"text file.txt", ios_base::binary);
char name[16]; name[nameFieldLength] = 0;
char age[8]; age[ageFieldLength] = 0;
char line_break[2];
while(!_ifstream.eof())
{
_ifstream.read(name, nameFieldLength);
_ifstream.read(age, ageFieldLength);
cout << name << ' ' << age << endl;
if(!_ifstream.eof()) _ifstream.read(line_break, lineBreakLength);
}
return 0;
}"I must have had lessons." - Reverend Jim Ignatowski / Christopher Lloyd
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Except for the part where identifiers starting with _ are reserved for the implementation 
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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FWIW, we've used leading underscores to mark private members as part of our coding conventions since the 1990's and never had an issue.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Fortunately, most implementations use a double underscore for system identifiers, so you're usually OK. But if you get strange error messages that refer to an identifier starting with an underscore, you've probably managed to collide with the compilers internals.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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k5054 wrote: you've probably managed to collide with the compilers internals
I was tearing my hair out once when I couldn't get a bit of financial code to compile - I had a variable called yield. Turns out there was a yield macro in the windows header to maintain compatibility with 16 bit windows. Sheesh.
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