Displaying to a VGA monitor through an adapter

Well that’s a relative success : it works all right with the above mentionned hdmi to dvi cable.
But now I’m facing, as others from what I’ve read on the forum (Screen Resolution (Ubuntu) for instance), the impossibility to easily change resolution to adapt to a smaller monitor.
I’m going to try http://docs.khadas.com/social/BuildUbuntuRootfsViaPrebuiltImage/