linux64kb's questions

• Running Ubuntu 18.04 sever on a physical machine or VirtualBox?
• Do you need/want to use the full native resolution of your screen? Higher than 640x480 / 800x600?

Then you may be stuck as I've been, because the solution that used to work on 14.04 and 16.04 doesn't work on 18.04.

Problems to solve (goals)

1. hwinfo --framebuffer gives an empty output -> find another solution
2. adding the usual lines to /etc/default/grub, only helps at the first stage of the boot. After GRUB2 has done its work, the resolution switches back to a lower value -> resolve this too
3. exclude xorg based tools like xrandr (this is a server without GUI by default)
4. increase VT1-7 (Ctrl+Alt+F1, F2 - F7 ) resolution in case of Desktop systems with a GUI
5. set the resolution to 1280x1024

I've set up x-forwarding on an Ubuntu 16.04.3 server and although the forwarding works, every time I start a GUI application it reports the following error in the terminal.

(<app-name>:<pid>) LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus: Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)

This is obviously not critical, but it isn't working as it should.

How can I repair this?

Edit I'm mostly trying to start Firefox.