Filling screen

[Jonathan Mason]

If you're using a LCD Monitor (flat panel) then the problem is likely to 
be with your video card setup and not using the native resolution. What 
you should first try is checking in the "Restricted Driver Manager" 
(under System -> Administration) and see if there is a driver for your 
video card (ATI or Nvidia), if there is try enabling it.

If after enabling it and you still have black areas you will have to 
manually specify the resolution to use, to do this open up System -> 
Administration -> Screens and Graphics,  and then you will need to 
change the "Model" of your monitor. You will need to know the native 
resolution of your monitor, it is often shown somewhere in the 
on-screen-display (the buttons that allow to change contrast etc), with 
this you should pick the proper Generic LCD panel which has your 
resolution. If you have a widescreen monitor then you will also need to 
check the "Widescreen monitor" checkbox for your resolution to work 
properly.

Tony Yarusso wrote:
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> Laurie Bell wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>  Is there a way to use the full screen on moniter? I have approx. a half
>> an inch of space around the page.Thanks.
>> Laurie
>>  
>> UBUNTU - I am what I am because of who we all are.
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> It probably depends on your exact setup, but often this is actually set
> by the monitor itself.  Most desktop monitors will have three or more
> buttons along the bottom or side edge, a menu button and two for
> increment/decrement.  On the ones I've used, what you would need to do
> is press the menu button, be presented with some sort of option on the
> screen, use the arrow buttons to cycle through to "horizontal size",
> select by pressing the menu button again, then use the up (or right)
> arrow to increase until the screen is filled, then press menu again to
> go back, and find "vertical size" and repeat, then press menu multiple
> times to exit entirely.
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