[Discuss] Setting Monitor Resolution in Gnome Box

[epp at mcom.com]

I've installed other distros in separate Gnome Boxes to try them out.
Once the desktop manager for the Fedora installation comes up, the
screen resolution is 1024x768. 

The full-screen resolution which the virtual monitor supports, is
1920x1002 and almost full-screen is 1920x1080. In trying to get the
desktop to come up in this resolution, I have tried an xorg.conf file,
as well as in the distro's session settings, to add (under Autostart):

xrandr --output Virtual-0 --mode 1920x1002 (and)
xrandr --output Virtual-0 --mode 1920x1002 --rate 59.9609

I've also added vga=xxx to the boot parameter with the hex code that is
closest to this resolution and also tried a different code for
1920x1080. 

None of the above will bring up the desktop/desktop manager in the
desired resolution.

FWIW, I also have two other distros in separate Gnome Boxes: PCLinuxOS
(which is based on OpenMandriva) and Lubuntu. With both of these, I
get full screen, or almost full-screen, certainly better than 1024x768.

I don't understand why the other two distros will honor monitor
settings, while Fedora doesn't. I have to keep changing it to 1920x1002
after the desktop appears each time.

Would there be anything else I could try? 

Thanks in advance.