David,
Thanks for that info. Sounds promising.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
> doing a quick google search for xrandr fix overscan is returning a lot of
> links, (some good, some not as usual)
>
> see if your setup supports
>
> xrandr --output <output> --set underscan on
>
> other than that, you need to set your resolution that X uses to something
> smaller than the actual screen, and then reposition the portion that X uses
> on the actual display
>
> I see the folloing in one of the links I followed
>
>
>
> Could try a overscan correction with xrandr
> Assuming the sad 1024x768 resolution..
> Code:
>
> xrandr --output LVDS1 --fb 992x736
> xrandr --output LVDS1 --pos 16x16
>
> replace LVDS1 with your screen name from xrandr.
> This works with latest intel driver from xorg-edgers on a netbook..
>
>
> and the transform and panning options in xrandr sound promising
>
> another page suggests
>
>
> I have seen a couple of resources online suggeting to do something like
> (for top, bottom, left and right):
>
> $ xrandr --output <device> --set TOP 20
>
> Changing 20, until you get it right.
>
> David Lang
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, john boris wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:01:53 -0400
>> From: john boris <jbori...@gmail.com>
>> To: David Lang <da...@lang.hm>
>> Cc: Craig Cook <cncook...@yahoo.com>,
>> "tech@lists.lopsa.org" <tech@lists.lopsa.org>
>> Subject: Re: Looking for help with xubuntu
>>
>>
>> David
>> It is overscan issues but haven't found anything that helps. Tried to
>> adjust tv but no option for that.
>>
>> On Thursday, August 22, 2013, David Lang wrote:
>>
>> 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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