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I have actually found 2 solutions and thought to share them here to help other Fluxbox users:

The issue is indeed that fluxbox doesn’t know about any resolution. When you start it I guess it takes the Xorg default which is 1024. However after you chose to scale the screen to your client’s resolution (as shown on the picture) and in the small fluxbox area you select RESTART fluxbox from the menu, when Fluxbox reloads it will automatically scale to your resolution.

This might be an acceptable solution for you if you don’t restart the remote machine regularly.

A more permanent solution is to create an xorg.conf with the resolution you want it to default to, for example:

 

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier     “X.org Configured”
Screen      0  “Screen0” 0 0
InputDevice    “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
InputDevice    “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection

Section “Files”
ModulePath   “/usr/lib/xorg/modules”
FontPath     “/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc”
FontPath     “/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic”
FontPath     “/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath     “/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath     “/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1”
FontPath     “/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi”
FontPath     “/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi”
FontPath     “/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType”
FontPath     “built-ins”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load  “glx”
Load  “record”
Load  “dbe”
Load  “dri2”
Load  “extmod”
Load  “dri”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier  “Keyboard0”
Driver      “kbd”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier  “Mouse0”
Driver      “mouse”
Option        “Protocol” “auto”
Option        “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option        “ZAxisMapping” “4 5 6 7”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier   “Monitor0”
VendorName   “Monitor Vendor”
ModelName    “Monitor Model”
EndSection

Section “Device”
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: “True”/”False”,
### <string>: “String”, <freq>: “<f> Hz/kHz/MHz”,
### <percent>: “<f>%”
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option     “ShadowFB”               # [<bool>]
#Option     “DefaultRefresh”         # [<bool>]
#Option     “ModeSetClearScreen”     # [<bool>]
Identifier  “Card0”
Driver      “vesa”
BusID       “PCI:0:2:0”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device     “Card0”
Monitor    “Monitor0”
SubSection “Display”
Viewport   0 0
Depth     1
Modes     “1920×1080”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Viewport   0 0
Depth     4
Modes     “1920×1080”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Viewport   0 0
Depth     8
Modes     “1920×1080”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Viewport   0 0
Depth     15
Modes     “1920×1080”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Viewport   0 0
Depth     16
Modes     “1920×1080”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
Modes     “1920×1080”
EndSubSection
EndSection

Trying to do delays in the .xsession file will not work, I think it completely ignores any sleep command in there. It would be useful for also having a delay before loading the wallpaper with /usr/bin/fbsetbg however regardless what delay you put there fbsetbg will always end up in defunct, if it’s run manually after the desktop loaded it works. Not a big deal for me as I have this terminal server up nonstop after loading.

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