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SOLVED - Any desktop environments with tv overscan settings? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by DaveedMee@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Heya, I'm currently using my old tv as a monitor and the problem is that it seems to have overscan and I can't go into the tv menu to change it. Do you know of any desktop environments that allow you to resize the window height and width? I've tried KDE with kdoctor and xrandr settings but all it did to me was changing hiw much of the desktop I was able to see without changing the resolution if that makes sense. Like The taskbar not only being cut off at the bottom half bc of Overscan but now thanks to the change in display settings as well.

So I'm in need of a desktop that has it's own feature to counteract that.

Any help appreciated, thanks

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[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Post output of

xrandr --prop

[–] DaveedMee@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

xrandr output

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

try xrandr --output HDMI-2 --transform 0.95,0,32,0,0.95,18,0,0,1 if it will work u can add this to ur .xprofile file in home directory

[–] DaveedMee@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

It positioned the screen to the bottom right edge of my tv but the left and top was still cut off. I wanted to see what kind of transformations u applied and checked the xrandr wiki, and found my solution in the end:

xrandr --output HDMI-2 --set underscan on --set "underscan vborder" 25 --set "underscan hborder" 40

But thanks for your help anyways!

[–] bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

I remember that Raspbian had manual overscan settings in /boot/config.txt, but I don't know how common something like that is in other distributions.

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I think it's kind of an outdated setting... I was looking a while back.

I believe I saw some people that were able to with xorg but not wayland

[–] gecked@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

Opposite for KDE. Wayland supports overscan, Xorg does not.

[–] DaveedMee@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I hope to be able to do that with xorg bc my graphics card probably has problems with Wayland