[Wylug-discuss] Display oddity

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 13 February 2006 17:59, simon wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:22:58PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Just wondering whether this is a common problem :-)
> > >
> > > I have a new Samsung LCD monitor.  AutoAdjust sets the display nicely,
> > > which is just as well, because so far I haven't had much success with
> > > the manual setup.  However, I use a KVM, and whenever I switch back
> > > from my second display I find that the display is slightly shifted to
> > > the right.  Anything with a scroll bar has to be hitched over to the
> > > left.  I can AutoAdjust again, of course.
>
> Hi,
> Assuming that you are using X on the machine with the offset screen.
>
> One work around could be to adjust the timing of the X Config. Thus
> making the X screen shift to the left or to the right. This can be done
> by hand in the XF86-Config file or via the application xvidtune.
>
Thanks, Simon, but I don't think it's worth risking getting X wrong for 
something I can live with.  Out of curiosity I shall look at the xorg.conf 
file, but I probably won't change it.

Anne