Desktop shifted on KDE

Hi
I just installed Opensuse 10.3 with KDE and have a problem with my desktop.
The tool bar at the bottom of the screen starts exactly at the left of the screen and goes to the right, but everything above has only a cut off width (windows, the desktop background) because at the right edge of the screen is a ~10 cm width grey bar.
Can anyone tell me what happened and how I make the desktop covering the whole screen again?

I think you are using KDE 4.0.x. In the right upper corner you’ll find a little yellow button, bubble, whatever. Click on it and select Zoom In.
Hope that helps.
Good luck.

I can’t see such a bubble. I made a screenshot with this bar at the right, hopes that helps:

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8247/bildschirmphoto2mv1.png

It could be an External Taskbar.If you right click the gray bar do you get an options menu? I think you will see a remove Taskbar option.

No, there are no right (or left) click options.

No one an idea?

Open a console and type these commands:

xrandr -q
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

You can cut and paste the output, and post here. That may be helpful.

There is another command called xwininfo that can provide X window sizes. Type

xwininfo

in console, then click on the desktop area. It will report various attributes including desktop size in pixels which can then be compared to current resolution.

Dear all,

I have the same issue under XFCE, with Opensuse 11.1 (no pb with opensuse 11.0) :frowning:
Is someone have an idea to fix it ?

Thanks for your help

Here’s the output from the commands:

xrandr -q

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1280x1024 50.0* 53.0
1024x768 51.0 57.0 58.0
800x600 52.0 61.0 62.0 63.0 64.0 65.0
1280x960 54.0
1152x864 55.0
1152x768 56.0
896x672 59.0
832x624 60.0
800x512 66.0
640x512 67.0 68.0
640x480 69.0 70.0 71.0 72.0
576x432 73.0
576x384 74.0
512x384 75.0 76.0 77.0
416x312 78.0
400x300 79.0 80.0 81.0 82.0
320x240 83.0 84.0 85.0

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

/…/

SaX generated X11 config file

Created on: 2008-11-23T15:21:46+0100.

Version: 8.1

Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005

Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>

Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “glx”
Load “type1”
Load “extmod”
Load “dbe”
Load “freetype”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “de”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
Option “XkbVariant” “nodeadkeys”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “10”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “Tempest Habu Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”
DisplaySize 338 270
HorizSync 30-83
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “BELINEA BELINEA101735”
Option “DPMS”
VendorName “MAX”
VertRefresh 43-77
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
Modeline “1280x1024” 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +HSync +VSync
Modeline “1024x768” 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800
EndSection

Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280x1024” “1024x768” “800x600”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280x1024” “1024x768” “800x600”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280x1024” “1024x768” “800x600”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280x1024” “1024x768” “800x600”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection

Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce 7950 GT”
BusID “1:0:0”
Driver “nvidia”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Screen 0
VendorName “NVIDIA”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
EndSection

xwininfo

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x160000f “KDE Desktop”

Absolute upper-left X: 0
Absolute upper-left Y: 0
Relative upper-left X: 0
Relative upper-left Y: 0
Width: 1280
Height: 1024
Depth: 24
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +0+0 -0+0 -0-0 +0-0
-geometry 1280x1024+0+0

Everything looks ok there (from resolution and pixel perspective). If running KDE3, have a look at this thread. Not sure what else to offer here.