Virtual Appliance - configuring screen resolution in xfce

You'll probably want to change the screen resolution in the virtual machine; you might want to use your screen's full resolution, and then run the VM in full screen mode.

To change the screen resolution in the guest, try one of the following:

1. in Xfce, right click on the desktop; choose Settings > Display settings

2. change VMware's hoykey combination Ctrl-Alt to something else, then use Ctrl-Alt-Plus or Ctrl-Alt-Minus within Xfce

3. run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and accept all the defaults up to the point of choosing the resolution. After doing this, log out then log back in again. To run the guest in full screen mode, in the VMware server console, its View > Fullscreen (or Ctrl + Alt + Enter)