[OpenIndiana-discuss] Using xrandr to automatically change display resolution?

[Nick]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM John D Groenveld via
openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>
> In message <CAG9BPSWVE58wO5HzzUY1CiOYvy7qZd5QWZiqhmm52738Q7NYUw at mail.gmail.com>
> , Nick writes:
> >I noticed some of the other GUI environments and WMs do this when the
> >screen is resized specifically with VMWare and/or VirtualBox.  I tried
> >the following expecting it to automatically change display resolution,
> >but it does nothing:
> >
> > $ xrandr --output default --gamma 1 --auto
> >
> >I'm using a simple `~/.xsessionrc` with `xterm &; exec /usr/bin/twm`,
> >not sure if someone can point me to the code doing this (dbus?).
>
> Under VBox, one needs to run VBoxClient-all for auto resizing (and
> shared clipboard.)
>
> Possibly under VMWare, you should add vmware-user to your .xsession:
> <URL:https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/manifest/0/system%2Fvirtualization%2Fopen-vm-tools-desktop@11.0.5%2C5.11-2020.0.1.1%3A20200330T162025Z>

I installed it and tried "startx" again, it has no effect on changing
resolution when the VMWare window size changes.  Any other
suggestions?