Re: TV hdmi overscan issues

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: TV hdmi overscan issues
Date	2021-08-31 16:10 +0200
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On Tue 31 Aug 2021 at 08:56:37 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 07:00:02PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Henning Follmann composed on 2021-08-30 18:09 (UTC-0400):...
> > > xrandr --output XWAYLAND3 --mode 1280x720 --transform 1.05,0,-10,0,1,0,0,0,1
> > > to shift the x axis.

> > > Is this a wayland issue?

Not so much an issue as Wayland's raison d'être, to push out X.

> > ...
> > On a 39" Proscan I needed this to eliminate overscan:
> > xrandr --output HDMI-1 --set underscan on --set "underscan vborder" 20 --set "underscan hborder" 35

… which is fine for we X users.

> However that does not work either. It fails with "font or color unknown", which I think ia 
> misleading. I suspect that wayland does not allow me to set any properties with xrandr.

I would assume that Wayland's such tools will be named with either
wayland-… or gnome-…, rather than x…, to distinguish the two worlds.

Cheers,
David.

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TV hdmi overscan issues Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2021-08-31 00:20 +0200
  Re: TV hdmi overscan issues Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-08-31 01:20 +0200
    Re: TV hdmi overscan issues Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2021-08-31 15:00 +0200
      Re: TV hdmi overscan issues David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-31 16:10 +0200

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