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Limit video output to a section of a display and leave the rest blank

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Mar 15, 20263973 views
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Problem

The video projector I have to use this week projects an image too large for its screen and spills over on every side. Fixing the physical setup is not possible or at least unlikely for the moment: the only solution is to carefully resize and position windows so that they display in the visible part…

Error Output

# xrandr doesn't have a padding option...
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1360x768 --left-of LVDS1 --padding 200

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Fix for: Limit video output to a section of a display and leave the rest blank

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I have a broken screen, with only the upper left corner usable. I use Openbox as my window manager (through Crunchbang). I have this at the start of (but I suppose you can add it to anything that executes after X starts): This reduces my screen to u…

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