SOLVED - Any desktop environments with tv overscan settings?

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

bismuthbob,
@bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

anon5621,

Post output of


<span style="color:#323232;">xrandr --prop
</span>
DaveedMee,
@DaveedMee@beehaw.org avatar

xrandr output

anon5621,

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

DaveedMee,
@DaveedMee@beehaw.org avatar

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!

iHUNTcriminals,

I think it’s kind of an outdated setting… I was looking a while back.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,

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

DaveedMee,
@DaveedMee@beehaw.org avatar

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

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