Solved Menu and Kodi is not full screen on old netbook

[Shlaf]

@ash1390 Hi
I'm new with recalbox but it looks like you just need to change the resolution of Emulation station and kodi in the recalbox.conf file with a specific one.
Or change the global.videomode line but i'm not sure, can anyone confirm?

[gnubit]

@ash1390

It may be that xorg is not autodetecting the correct resolution of your 2nd display. You can use xrandr to duplicate the image or set a specific resolution on the vga port.

Common display names are:
LVDS - Laptop Screen
HDMI - High-Definition Multimedia Interface
DVI - Digital Visual Interface
DP - DisplayPort
VGA - Video Graphics Array
TV - Composite Video
S-video - S-Video

Get root access: https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Root-access-on-terminal-(EN)

run xrandr from terminal to see what your displays are: (my example laptop)

~ $ xrandr

VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 340mm x 270mm
1280x1024 75.02+ 60.02 

1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00 

800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25 

640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94 

LVDS-0 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 367mm x 230mm
1440x900 59.94+
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Once you know what your display names are you can use xrandr to set your display.
See the example displays I used with my laptop with a monitor connected via VGA, your display name may be different.

xrandr --output LVDS-0 --auto --output VGA-0 --auto --same-as LVDS-0 (this will duplicate the same resolution on the VGA port)

To set a specific resolution on the vga port (eg: 720 resolution)
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x720

A more complete command that will duplicate the display and set set VGA to 720:
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x720 --same-as LVDS-0

You could also switch off the laptops display if you want:
xrandr --output LVDS-0 --off

Or have the laptop screen off and VGA screen on:
xrandr --output LVDS-0 --off --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x720

Once you happy with it you can make it permanent by adding it ~/.xinitrc
https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Change-display-resolution-on-x86---x86_64)

My apologies for waffling on, hope it may help

Sources:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/multihead

[gnubit]

Apologies the correct wiki link is Change display resolution on x86 x86_64

[ash1390]

thanks alot for helping.

[paradadf]

@ash1390 what about changing/adding the parameter in recalbox.conf:

kodi.videomode=default

[gnubit]

@ash1390 said in Menu and Kodi is not full screen on old netbook:

thanks alot for helping.

So what worked for you in the end ?

[seba carp]

@gnubit hi gnubit a mi me sale asi , y se me ve como a el
#!/bin/sh

matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar no -use_desktop_mode no -use_lowlight no &

set the keyboard

systemsetting="python /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configgen/settings/recalboxSettings.pyc"
settings_lang="$systemsetting -command load -key system.language"

not always true (en_US for us), but it's really better than always english

map_name=$(echo $settings_lang | cut -c 1-2)
setxkbmap "${map_name}"

disable dpms to prevent screen to turns blank

xset -dpms
xset s off

to disable a video output (multi-screen setup) and prevent ES to be stretcht on all screens,

uncomment the line below, and replace output_name by the output that you want disable on ES startup (ex: HDMI-0)

xrandr --output output_name --off

auto hide cursor each 5 sec of inactivity

hhpc -i 5 &

export HOME=/recalbox/share/system
export LC_ALL="${settings_lang}.UTF-8"

without windowed, time must be sleeped to wait that matchbox ended to initialize

exec emulationstation --windowed

[seba carp]

@ash1390 hola pudiste solucionarlo

[gnubit]

@seba-carp

Hello sebra-carp , sorry but I don`t speak spanish, but looking at your post @ZING referred you here.

Have you tried ?
xrandr -s 1280x720

[seba carp]

@gnubit la unica solucion que encontre fue esta . Pero cada ves que entramos hay que ir a kodi y salir...y queda dicha resolucion..mi maxima resolucion es 1680x1050