I have a laptop with the top left corner's screen being broken – I can't see anything there. However it's just a small corner, so I'd like to know if there's something I can do to make Ubuntu not use that part of the screen at all – I basically want it to ignore 2 unity taskbars on the left, and re-position all the content.
Ubuntu – Screen resolution repositioning? (Broken laptop screen)
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Best Answer
Create a script @ let's say
/usr/share/screen.sh
make it executable
edit the file (I will use gedit here, so it is easier to paste for newbies)
paste the contents of this script:
Edit the first four lines to your required resolution. I have experimented with 1280x800 as my original one and I took a 120 pixels of the horizontal part as the unity bar is about 60 pixels wide.
Save
file andexit
gedit.Fallow these guidelines - How do I start applications automatically on login - to create a startup script. Put a
Screen resize
or something like that in theName
field and/usr/share/screen.sh
as theCommand
Restart Ubuntu and hopefully you will get what you want. It works on my machine :)