hmm, it sounds as if your TV may be cutting off the edge of the display and you
need to adjust your overscan values to tell Linux not to use the very edge of
the display.
I don't use xfce, so I'm not sure exactly how you would do it using it's tools,
but look into the command line xrandr tool, I think it lets you set things like
this.
I've also seen that some TVs let you disable the overscan mode, so you may want
to poke around in it's menus, specifically looking for picture mode options.
When we used large TVs at Scale for hallway displays, we had to do this, but
with my TV at home, I don't.
David Lang
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, john boris wrote:
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:07:08 -0400
From: john boris <jbori...@gmail.com>
To: Craig Cook <cncook...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "tech@lists.lopsa.org" <tech@lists.lopsa.org>
Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for help with xubuntu
When the system comes up I get the desktop. I was able to find a way to get
to the display settings and laptop is the only display there and there is
no way to turn it off.
Just to be clear I am using a 42" Hidef LCD Sanyo TV through one of the
HDMI ports.
When you see the screen on the left you see icons for Home, DVD, Attached
USB Hard Drive but these are cut down by 50%. I can see ome of Home if you
understand.
What I don't see is the top menu bar where the close,minimize and maximize
sits or even the button at the far upper right that you can open the drop
down menu for logout and shutdown. It is there because if I move the mouse
up that way and slowly to the right I can get it to open at times. Like
reaching in the dark.
All I want to do is shrink all of that down so it fits on the screen. I
have a ton of resolutions available in the Display settings app but none
of them help. All they do is make what I see smaller or larger. I also
tried to change the settigs on the TV's (Sanyo)menu but all that does is
make the entire screen smaller or larger and I still see half of the icons.
I am going to try everyone's suggestion as I want this to work as it was to
be my media center besides a pc for my Granddaughter to use
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Craig Cook <cncook...@yahoo.com> wrote:
All is well but I am looking for the tips to get the screen correct out
the HDMI connection tomy Flat Panel HiDef LCD
Not sure if this is the fix, but I had to turn off my laptop screen when
docked. Otherwise my monitors were overlaid and would not display.
("System Settings - Displays", ensure laptop screen is off)
Craig
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