Bug 311535

Summary:	Cannot scale Screen.
Product:	[Plasma] KScreen	Reporter:	Alex Tsi <alexhs.tsi>
Component:	common	Assignee:	Daniel Vrátil <dvratil>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugseforuns, dvratil, gladhorn, kde, nate, postix, stasnel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.1
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alex Tsi 2012-12-11 17:51:30 UTC

If i connect my laptop through hdmi to an external monitor, then the resolution is somehow bigger. I mean, i cannot see some part of my top and bottom panels, same for the left and right panels. Some part of desktop is missing.
Now, the strange is that with the same resolution, if i connect through VGA everything is ok.
In windows, i was able to scale screen, so make it fit my screen, keeping the shame resolution.
Is that possible in KDE?

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-12-11 18:26:23 UTC

Most TV screens have some sort of overscan which makes the picture a little bigger than it actually is. You probably can configure your TV to use "Auto" or force 16:9 aspect ratio (worked on my Samsung SmartTV).

Comment 2 Alex Tsi 2012-12-11 18:40:32 UTC

Thanks for the advise! I managed to configure it through the tv monitor. However, I still think that scale possibility should be added to kde, but i leave that up to the devs to decide.

Comment 3 Alex Fiestas 2013-01-02 09:58:02 UTC

Changing this to wish for further evaluation.

Thanks for the tip !

Comment 4 Daniel Vrátil 2015-02-05 10:26:08 UTC

*** Bug 336695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Patrick Silva 2018-09-18 19:41:37 UTC

Almost 6 years later and the problem persists...
There is no plasma panel on external monitor connected to my laptop through hdmi port when multi-scrren mode is configured as "unified outputs".
The same monitor connected to the same laptop through dsub port shows plasma panel.

Distro Neon dev unstable.

Comment 6 postix 2020-03-08 11:44:42 UTC

(In reply to Patrick Silva from comment #5)
> Almost 6 years later and the problem persists...
> There is no plasma panel on external monitor connected to my laptop through
> hdmi port when multi-scrren mode is configured as "unified outputs".
> The same monitor connected to the same laptop through dsub port shows plasma
> panel.
> 
> Distro Neon dev unstable.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2022-11-08 21:03:43 UTC

There's now an overscan setting for TVs.