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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