On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:00:31 -0600, Knute Johnson wrote:

> On 1/2/2018 16:20, Jack Fearnley wrote:
>> I am new to the raspberry pi but not to Linux.  My plan is to connect
>> to the Raspberry Pi through VNC but with no screen, keyboard etc
>> attached to the RP.
>>
>> I have managed to do this using my Ubuntu machine as client and it
>> works fine except for the screen resolution.
>>
>> When I have a screen physically attached to the RP, the image on my
>> client screen is fine.  However, when there is no screen attached the
>> image on my client drops to 640X480 which means that icons look huge
>> and windows overlap the screen size.
>>
>> I need to tell the RP that it has a high resolution screen even when
>> none is attached.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>               Jack Fearnley, enthusiastic new user.
>
> The simplest way I've found is to edit /boot/config.txt and add:
>
> framebuffer_width=1920 framebuffer_height=1080
>
> or whatever size you want.

I looked at /boot/config and uncommented the relevant lines and it worked
perfectly.

Many thanks,
            Jack

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