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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Reducing actual screen dimensions

Pretty sure this is common enough, but I can't seem to find anything. Wrong google terms I guess. I only find underscan options, which don't seem related to what I'm trying to do.

My laptop has a 15.6 inch screen and I'd like to restrict to used area to a smaller size (14.1 or 13.3) to simulate a few days use and see if I should purchase an ultrabook for my next machine. It's an optimus machine, so I guess anything which is either xrandr based (or intel-based) should work.

To clarify, I want to only use a 14.1/13.3 diagonal area of the laptop screen (meaning black borders all around for the 'excess' area).

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catweazle

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-12-14

Posts: 24

Re: Reducing actual screen dimensions

Give this a try.

It worked for me (Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470, using the radeon driver)