I have an HP 20wm monitor that I use for programming, which has a resolution of 1600×900. But whenever I try setting the resolution to 1600×900 it gets cropped on either side to 1440×900, so when I adjust the monitor setting to full screen it just stretches the image, which looks wrong. cvt 1600 900
outputs the following:
# 1600x900 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.44M9) hsync: 55.99 kHz; pclk: 118.25 MHz
Modeline "1600x900_60.00" 118.25 1600 1696 1856 2112 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync
I set the resolution using xrandr
as follows:
xrandr --newmode "FullScreen" 118.25 1600 1696 1856 2112 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 "FullScreen"
This is what I get on either side of the screen:
How do I fix this?
Even stranger, when I go to display
under preferences it says 'Resolution 1600 x 900' when that is clearly not the case. xrandr
reveals the following information:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1366x768 60.03 +
1360x768 59.80 59.96
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
640x480 59.94
VGA1 connected primary 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
848x480 60.00
640x480 59.94
FullScreen 59.95*
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Best Answer
Since I cannot add comments just yet, please consider this as a comment. Check the syslog, e.g.
dmesg | tail
Maybe change resolution, check syslog, change bay to virtually correct resolution and check again. Maybe there is something useful.