Raspbian PIXEL Resolution in MPBR 2015

HiDPI setting in PIXEL OS

Reference: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1086671#p1086671

1) Run Raspian with Pixel x86 with Persistence
  1. Fire up VMWare Fusion
  2. Create a new VM
  3. Select "Install from disc or image" as the installation method
  4. Select "2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso"
  5. Select "Debian 8.x" as the operating system
  6. Customize the settings as desired. I changed the vm name and set the memory to 1024 MB. I left the vdisk size as 20 GB
  7. Start up the newly created vm. Note that PIXEL is actually running from the virtual CD and not the virtual hard disk
  8. When you get to the desktop, open up a terminal window
  9. Type the following command "sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sda bs=1M" This will run for a few seconds and then report the success of the copy operation
  10. Type "sudo shutdown now"
  11. Once the vm has stopped running, click the little CD icon at the top of the vm's window (part of the Fusion window) and select "Disconnect CD/DVD"
  12. Start the VM
  13. When the Raspian Display pops up push the "ESC" key to get to the Boot menu
  14. Select "run with persistence"
  15. The persistence volume (named aufs in a df -H command) will now show the whole 20 GB is being used
  16. Update and install software as desired

2) Permanent change to resolution
PIXEL installs lxrandr. If you open a terminal and type "lxrandr" then it will bring up a graphical application that
lets you set the resolution(1280x800). Once you have the desired resolution click "Apply" to apply it immediately. You have to
confirm that selection within 15 seconds via the popup dialog to ensure the resolution is usuable. Then click "Save"
to save the configuration (where I don't know) and the next time you boot into PIXEL it will be at the new desired 
resolution.