Screen set-up

[Keith Powell]

Daniel Stone wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:01:37PM +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
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>>After installation, the desktop and, consequently, the applications are 
>>shifted well to the right on my monitor screen.  The left side of the 
>>desktop is well away from the edge of the screen (giving a wide band of 
>>black), while the right side is so far over, that I can't see the "trash 
>>can" or the scroll bars.
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>>I am running two other distros and have tried several others.  With all 
>>of these, the desktop is correctly positioned, almost touching the edge 
>>of the screen on either side. It's just Ubuntu which is giving me this 
>>problem.
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>>Is there any way of altering the desktop's position in Ubuntu and move 
>>it to the left? I can't find a way.
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>>If I physically alter the settings of the monitor, all other distros are 
>>wrongly positioned.
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>>The monitor is an LCD and Ubuntu is set to the correct settings of 
>>1024x768 at 75Hz.
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>If you could reply off-list and attach /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and 
>and /var/log/XFree86.0.log (if using Warty; /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
>/var/log/Xorg.0.log if using Hoary), I'll have a look at it.
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Thanks, Daniel.

I have replied to you off-list.

Cheers

Keith