Desktop is not using full screen space

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:25 AM, S D <sundimi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Need help with the following problem: Desktop is not using full available screen space.
>
> The system was working fine in Debian Etch. Then it was upgraded to Debian Lenny. Hardware remains the same, no changes were made.
>
> After the upgrade to Lenny, the picture doesn't use the whole available screen space but leaves unused areas about 3-5 cm from the left, right, top and bottom monitor edges. It looks something like this:
>
>  +------------1------------------+
>  |                               |
>  |                               |
>  |    +-------2---------+        |
>  |    |                 |        |
>  |    |                 |        |
>  |    |                 |        |
>  |    +-----------------+        |
>  |                               |
>  |                               |
>  +-------------------------------+
>
> Where 1 is the monitor and 2 is the picture.


Adjust the horizontal and vertical size on your monitor until it fills
your screen.

Alex