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By default when you install Mac Operating system on Virtualization software, most of the time the screen resolution is 1024×768, and you can change it on VirtualBox to “ 640×480, 800×600, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1900×1200 “. As an example, I want to change the resolution from 1024×768 to 1440×900.
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I want my Macbook to be 1280x720 for a certain thing I need to do, yet all the programs that do this cost money.
Is there a free way to do within on Lion?
NO: SwitchResX or whatever is not free.
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I think I may have solved this problem, after a lot of experimentation, but I only have one system to test it on. http://youtu.be/6DxQm8xAy6M. The video references this website
Basically, I'm editing the plist file that sets which resolutions are allowed. No software or money required.
/System/Library/Displays/Overrides/
contains the .plist files with the resolution options OSX uses for displays. I'm running ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayPrefsKey
to figure out which one is the primary display, and then adding an entry for the custom resolution. It's basically what switchresx does, but without all of the software.This is on OSX 10.6.8, though, so I don't know if it's applicable to Lion.
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Windows 10 includes a variety of display customization options. It has display options in its new Settings app along with those usually included in the Control Panel. This is how you can configure your resolution in Windows 10 and adjust some other display settings.
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First, check out some of the options in the Settings app by right-clicking the desktop and selecting Display settings. That will open the Setting’s app display options shown below. There you can adjust the brightness settings by dragging the Adjust brightness level bar.
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Select Advanced display settings there to open the options in the snapshot directly below. That includes a Resolution drop-down menu from which you can select resolution settings for your VDU. Choose a resolution and press the Apply button for a preview of it. Then it will ask if you wish to keep the resolution settings? If you don’t select Yes, it will revert back to the original resolution.
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Note that the Resolution drop-down menu might not include every supported resolution. Click Display adapter properties and List All Modes to open the window shown below. That includes a full list of all supported resolutions.
To select resolution settings via the Control Panel, press Win + R and enter ‘Control Panel’ in Run to open it. You can click Display > Adjust resolution to open the window below. The resolution options there are a little more limited than those on the Settings app. Select a setting from the Resolution drop-down menu and press Apply.
Most will probably select the highest resolution setting they can with those options. However, remember that higher display settings require more RAM. If you cut the resolution down a bit, that will also free up RAM and system resources, which could also speed up your desktop or laptop.