title: Initial Ubuntu guest screen resolution on VMWare
body: <p>Windows 7 (host) with VMWare Workstation 11.</p>
  
  <p>Kubuntu 15.04 as Guest.</p>
  
  <p>Problem:</p>
  
  <p>After system startup, in example, on login screen - screen size/resolution is 800x600. Ba, even earlier - during startup when console is active. Making window fullscreen isn't helping, as console output limits itself to small window in the middle.</p>
  
  <p>Setting VMWare window into fullscreen helps a little - screen gets bigger (size of host 1920x1080) -  guest Kubuntu applications windows are taking whole  screen area.  But, for example, desktop wallpaper acts still as if 800x600 was in effect. And inside System settings -> display Virtual screen stays at 800x600, nevertheless Resolution list is long. Unfortunately - 1920x1080 isn't there.</p>
  
  <pre><code>This what xrandr shows:
  Screen 0: minimum 1 x 1, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
  Virtual1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis   y axis) 0mm x 0mm
     1920x1080      60.0*+
     2560x1600      60.0  
     1920x1440      60.0  
     1856x1392      60.0  
     1792x1344      60.0  
     1920x1200      59.9  
     1600x1200      60.0  
     1680x1050      60.0  
     1400x1050      60.0  
     1280x1024      60.0  
     1440x900       59.9  
     1280x960       60.0  
     1360x768       60.0  
     1280x800       59.8  
     1152x864       75.0  
     1280x768       59.9  
     1024x768       60.0  
     800x600        60.3  
     640x480        59.9 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From this it seems that proper resolution is set properly.</p>
  
  <p>Now, some magic. I logout from Kubuntu. Login screen is already taking whole 1920x1080 screen area. Settings -> Display shows Virtual screen as 1920x1080, xrandr shows the same set of resolutions.
  VMWare Tools were installed - at least to the point that I have bidirectional access to shared folders.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What to do to have proper screen resolution right from the beginning?</strong> Yea, I know that I can freeze whole session and resume it whenever I need it.</p>