Hello Lemmy, hello Linux users!

I am trying to get into all this open source jazz and finding a way to give a second life to this god awful monitor/tv. It’s from a company I’ve never heard of before called OCEANIC, and it has plastic borders that actually just obstruct the sides of the screen, which means it has a letterbox-ed view of everything one would do on a computer.

I would love to get a suggestion on how I could possibly solve this problem! Resolutions proposed in the settings don’t work but maybe a custom one is needed?

  • nicocarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t have KDE so I can point you in the exact direction. But I think your problem is not about the resolution but about “overscan”. TVs by default occlude a part of he screen, you should be able to change this behavior either through the TV menus or in the KDE settings.

    • Mangoguana@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Ok so first of all thanks alot for the answer, I was looking for the appropriate term for ages! Unfortunately the TV has no option to fix this, so I am looking for a software solution, I am tempted to use xrandr but don’t know if there is a better or other way. Being new to this operating system sure is exciting!!!