[Wylug-discuss] Display oddity

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:

> 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.

xvidtune lets you do the changes interactively, so you can test to see if
it'll do the trick.

jh

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