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brent

WetGeek terminology is a trip--a big shiny car--intimidating at first. yeah, I like my restic now as well. I know synaptic, too. I think Chrome is the default browser isn't it? That was the only turn-off for me. Or was it Chromium?
PS---I really like leafpad way better than gedit but Nautilus, to me, warts and all, has more functionality than their native Thunar. Unless I break it I'm pretty sure this is my #2....

WetGeek

brent I think Chrome is the default browser isn't it?

Chromium.

But I intend to replace it with Vivaldi if I can figure out the resolution thing and decide to continue a little farther with it.

wingman-4

WetGeek

Try settings>preferences>monitor>output

WetGeek

wingman-4

Thanks! I don't know why I didn't find that. Unless ... do I need to select one of the workspaces first? I may have assumed that it would be a setting that's available from the main page, to affect ALL the workspaces.

wingman-4

WetGeek
I haven't used Enlightenment for a long time and had to look ! As I remember it was very fast on my system , but looks very dated to me. I think Bodhi uses an older version to base the desktop on .

tomscharbach

WetGeek Thanks! I don't know why I didn't find that. Unless ... do I need to select one of the workspaces first? I may have assumed that it would be a setting that's available from the main page, to affect ALL the workspaces.

Just as a FYI, in the days when I used VirtualBox (Windows 10 as Host), I had the resolution-adjust issue with a small number of distros. I can't remember which offhand, but all were mainstream and none fringe. As I recall, the issue had to do with VirtualBox Guest Additions settings rather than the distro itself, but changing those settings did not work for all of the problematic distros.

I don't know whether it will help or not, but Bohdi has an old article that suggests that action needs to be taken with respect to Guest Additions in order for the distro to work properly in VirtualBox: "Bodhi comes with generic virtual box support pre-installed. Before you install the official virtual box guest additions you need to remove these." You might be running into a conflict between VirtualBox Guest Additions and Bohdi's pre-installed Guest Additions.

wingman-4

"do I need to select one of the workspaces first?" I didn't try to adjust resolutions for individual work-spaces. My previous experience is with bare-metal installations and never bothered with trying to change that. I think it's just an option.

WetGeek

tomscharbach

Thanks for your comments. My problem wasn't that Bodhi wasn't responding to a setting change, it's jusst that I couldn't find the setting to change. I probably wasn't looking for one called "Output."

I'll give it another try if we can get VirtualBox unbroken.

wrefiyu

WetGeek Usb flash drive to start maker

WetGeek

wrefiyu Usb flash drive to start maker

I'm not sure if that's a question, or if so, what you're asking. Do you want to know how to create a USB installer from an .ISO file that you've already downloaded? Do you want to know where to get the .ISO file?

Something else? A full sentence (or more) would make it easier for someone to help you.

brent

WetGeek you are digging the Bodhi, so am I. It was mentioned in this thread that it looks dated, and perhaps, but what a singular unique vision. I completely dig/respect that. That's the same spririt that brought me to Solus.

wrefiyu

WetGeek I am a Chinese,so my English is not very good, please forgive me.
What I am trying to say is :ventoy or Rufus， they all a USB recorder .They can make a boot disk,and install the system in the computer.
Thank you very much.☺️

elfprince

brent But an all-green theme...... kinda hard on the eyes.... 😀

brent

elfprince
😉

WetGeek

wrefiyu my English is not very good, please forgive me

No need to forgive you ... you haven't done anything wrong. I'm just trying to find out how to help you.

I haven't used ventoy, although I know that @brent has. He can tell you about his experience with it. I've used Rufus on Windows, but not Linux. On Linux, I use Etcher, which is very easy to use and has produced good results for me.

If you want to try Etcher, you can get it from the Solus repository: sudo eopkg it -y etcher Good luck!

brent

wrefiyu you need an appimage (of course) of Ventoy--the appimage is an installer that installs the ventoy program on a USB stick. when you have ventoy installed on a usb stick you can collect a dozen .isos of different distros to test....and launch or install them to a traget disk right from the ventoy usb. No rufus, no etcher, no accidental write-only converted usb stick🙁. You can add/remove isos and delete them as you please. Far more economical time-wise then single distro burned by rufus etc to a single usb. absolutely not as economical as using a VM I'd bet...

Staudey

WetGeek @wrefiyu was just replying to an old question of yours about what "Ventoy" is. But that question had been answered by brent in the meantime.

WetGeek

Staudey

I totally misunderstood that one. I thought she wanted a recommendation of what to use. Thanks.

WetGeek

I finally found the resolution settings (again) and I'm pretty sure I now know why I gave up on Bodhi the first time I looked at it. Of the 7 computers here, 2 of them are special-purpose (4K TV and a little Travelmate laptop). The other 5, desktops and laptops, all have a very common screen resolution of FHD, or 1920x1080. Bodhi doesn't offer that resolution.

I think the first time I looked at it, I ended up with a 4:3 aspect ratio. There was no way to get to 16:9, the actual shape of my monitor screens.

With great sadness, I've given up on Bodhi once more. This time I hope to be able to remember why.

tomscharbach

WetGeek The other 5, desktops and laptops, all have a very common screen resolution of FHD, or 1920x1080. Bodhi doesn't offer that resolution. I think the first time I looked at it, I ended up with a 4:3 aspect ratio. There was no way to get to 16:9, the actual shape of my monitor screens. With great sadness, I've given up on Bodhi once more. This time I hope to be able to remember why.

I'm sorry to hear that ... I thought that the conflict between Bohdi and VirtualBox Guest Additions display settings might be resolved by the method suggested in the Bhodi knowledge base, but it appears not. My guess is that Bohdi supports 1920x1080 resolution on bare metal, though, or the complaint boards would be lighting up like the 4th of July. Bohdi just isn't VirtualBox friendly, I guess. I've run into the issue with a few distos when I used VirtualBox, and never managed to resolve the issue for those distros.

WetGeek

tomscharbach My guess is that Bohdi supports 1920x1080 resolution on bare metal, though

I don't know why that would make a difference. Bodhi does support 1920x1200 (and other higher resolutions), which I figured must be a common resolution where it originates.

Distros should offer resolutions based on the monitors (plug-n-play? and their drivers). How else could they know what monitors are being used?

With a VBox VM, the available resolutions are the same for Bodhi as for any other distro -- incluing Solus and the other dozens of distros I've tried out in VMs. Apparently Bodhi offers a choice of resolution regardless of whether the monitor(s) being used support that resolution or that aspect ratio.

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