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quite a few people have been asking how to increase the resolution or size of the layout designer in xibo, which has a default size of 800×450 (16:9 resolution. media is scaled to the correct res on your display).

the accepted way of changing the designer resolution is to go to Management > Resolutions from within the xibo web interface and edit the resolution that you want. when i tried this, for some reason, it did not work for me. an alternate way of changing the resolution is to edit the database which i will show you how to do below. i assume in this howto that you already have phpmyadmin installed and working.

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some people over at the xibo launchpad page have been asking how to use different media types, or audio/video/image extensions, with their digital signage setup. since this is a pretty easy task, i thought i’d give everyone a quick howto.

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if you’re are using phpmyadmin on a publicly accessible server, then you might want to change the way you access it to keep unwanted hackers away.

for this howto, i am using a ubuntu based server with cli only and i assume that you know what you’re doing. if you dont already have phpmyadmin installed, simple enter sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin into your terminal.

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although this will work for any plugin, this howto is geared towards enabling the tables plugin for ckeditor in Xibo. this will allow you to create tables in the text editor.

open a terminal and navigate to /path/to/webserver/xibo/3rdparty/ckeditor

cd /path/to/webserver/xibo/3rdparty/ckeditor

use nano or your favorite text editor to open config.js

sudo nano config.js

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