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[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2018-09-30 at 10:39 -0700, Bob wrote:
> The problem was that the "<" was not on the screen.

Oops!  It's usually a good idea to move the window so it's completely
visible :)

> The confusing thing is that the screen has been shifted about 5/8 of
> an inch to the left so you do not see all of the screen data.

I'm sure you've already investigated the hardware buttons on the
monitor?  For some monitors those can be used to shift the display
left/right/up/down.  If that's the problem then no amount of
software/driver updating will help.

Unfortunately there's not much else that we can say without knowing
many more details such as the type of laptop, the type of monitor, the
type of video card, etc. etc.

I recently got a new Dell laptop for work with a "plugable" docking
station which uses DisplayLink hardware to support (2) external
monitors.  It required a lot of tweaking to get the (proprietary)
DisplayLink drivers working.  Quite annoying.  It sounds like you are
using a direct connection rather than a docking station though.