Reassigning to xorg - lightdm doesn't have any control on the display resolution so there's likely a problem in the X drivers and/or vmware.
** Project changed: lightdm => xorg (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1280406 Title: Screen is larger than monitor on virtualbox Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ran a dist-upgrade on Trusty today on both my physical and virtual hardware. Suddenly on my VM noticed that the display is ~100% larger than the visible area. Physical machine runs fine. Did a clean install in a new VM, everything looked OK on initial boot, but on reboot the same problem occured (ONLY ran the following commands before reboot: sudo apt-get install openssh-server sudo apt-add-repository ppa:autopilot/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libautopilot-qt python-autopilot zsh vim openssh-client bzr python-gtk python-glade2) Running xrandr gives output: "failed to get size of gamma for output default" LSHW: devbox% sudo lshw -c VIDEO *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: VirtualBox Graphics Adapter vendor: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: vga_controller bus_master configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:e0000000-e0ffffff --- ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-14 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140214) LightdmConfig: [SeatDefaults] autologin-guest=false autologin-user=adam autologin-user-timeout=0 autologin-session=lightdm-autologin Package: lightdm 1.9.7-0ubuntu2 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2 Tags: trusty Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic i686 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1280406/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
